DISINFECTION [View Printable]
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jachmoody
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Would like to know if others agree that rotation of disinfectants--with alternating pH etc--is unneccessary?
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| Posted Mar 10, 2005, 18:17 PM |
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Richard Taylor
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Do you not think it's a good strategy for reducing the chance of resistance being developed to the disinfectant / disinfection regieme? |
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jachmoody
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| mishmash said: | | Do you not think it's a good strategy for reducing the chance of resistance being developed to the disinfectant / disinfection regieme? |
We just havn't seen the need for the rotation--hypochlorite[for non-metallic surfaces] and phenol[for ss surfaces] are inexpensive and work well--even after fungal harvests of high sporulating genera like Aspergillus etc. |
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| Posted Mar 19, 2005, 4:31 AM |
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bioramani
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| jachmoody said: | | mishmash said: | | Do you not think it's a good strategy for reducing the chance of resistance being developed to the disinfectant / disinfection regieme? |
We just havn't seen the need for the rotation--hypochlorite[for non-metallic surfaces] and phenol[for ss surfaces] are inexpensive and work well--even after fungal harvests of high sporulating genera like Aspergillus etc. |
We make various biomedical devices in India. With high temperature and high RH we found that phenol (As a regular disinfectant), Dettol, and Savlon (less frequent) and occasional fumigation with formaldehyde-permanganate work satisfactorily. Ramani |
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| Posted Jun 21, 2005, 1:14 AM |
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jachmoody
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Thanks for the reply--figured others would have had similar results to ours--it saves considerable expense and is validatable.
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| Posted Jun 23, 2005, 17:27 PM |
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Deepu
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It's a myth that we have to use different disinfectants to avoid resistance. While rotating different disinfectants we have to decide the right concentration, otherwise it will backfire.
The better way is to stick to one disinfectant,use your environment monitoring results as the watch dog and reassess the efficasy in case of outlier results. |
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| Posted Nov 08, 2006, 3:58 AM |
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