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Wednesday, 24 September 2014

sterilization1


Definition: is the complete removal or elimination of all transmissible agent such as bacteria & virus from surface, a piece of equipment , food or biological culture, it used principally to prevent spoilage of food and other substance and to prevent the transmission of diseases by destroying microbes.
Methods of sterilization:

I)Physical methods:
a. Temperature: cause kill microorganism by decomposed cell wall or change the nature of its enzymes.
1. High Temperature:
   • Dry heat: used for kill microbes in metallic, plastic & glass instrument.
160  for 2hr. or 170  for 1hr. add 30-35% of hydrogen peroxide
 Rate of elevate Temperature=10-15  
Kill microbes in acidic or high salt medium is higher than in medium contain lipid or protein which protect microbes. 
• Moist heat: it is more effect than dry heat because
                         a. moist heat has highest penetration power in microbes.                               
b. not needs high temperature or long time for sterilization.   
  Used in pasteurization for kill tuberculosis bacilli, E.coli and salmonella in milk.   
72  for 15min. or 66  for 30 min.

  Autoclaves: it commonly use steam heated to 121  
at 103Kpaq above atmospheric pressure for 15min.
·       Autoclaves will inactivate all fungi, bacteria, and virus also bacteria spores.

• Flaming: is done to loops and straight wires in      microbiological lab.

Incineration: will burn any organism to ash
·       It used to prevent spread of infection disease.
·       Used more than 500  for burn substance which have microbes.
  • Tyndallization (or repeated boiling):
·       The solution boiling for 30min. → cool and save for time→ boiling (these procedure repeat three time)
·       Disadvantage:
                                 1.     have long time.
                                 2.     Growth of spore may be altering the medium.
2. Low temperature: it causes:
·       Slow the chemical reaction specific reaction need to enzymes.
·       The cell wall become Rigid.
·       Inhibit metabolism by inhibit enzymes and stop growth.

b. Filtration: removed microorganism from liquid by small pores.
·       Used for thermo-label substances as blood serum, enzyme solution, antibiotics and some bacteriological media.


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