Antimicrobial, the Glossary
An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms (microbicide) or stops their growth (bacteriostatic agent).[1]
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Acetic acid
Acetic acid, systematically named ethanoic acid, is an acidic, colourless liquid and organic compound with the chemical formula (also written as,, or). Vinegar is at least 4% acetic acid by volume, making acetic acid the main component of vinegar apart from water.
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Aciclovir
Aciclovir, also known as acyclovir, is an antiviral medication.
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Adverse effect
An adverse effect is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention, such as surgery.
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Albendazole
Albendazole is a broad-spectrum antihelmintic and antiprotozoal agent of the benzimidazole type.
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Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.
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Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness.
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Aminoglycoside
Aminoglycoside is a medicinal and bacteriologic category of traditional Gram-negative antibacterial medications that inhibit protein synthesis and contain as a portion of the molecule an amino-modified glycoside (sugar).
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Anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion is a sequence of processes by which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen.
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Ancient Egyptian medicine
The medicine of the ancient Egyptians is some of the oldest documented.
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Ancient Greek medicine
Ancient Greek medicine was a compilation of theories and practices that were constantly expanding through new ideologies and trials.
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Anthrax
Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
Antibiotic
An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria.
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Antibiotic prophylaxis
Antibiotic prophylaxis refers to, for humans, the prevention of infection complications using antimicrobial therapy (most commonly antibiotics).
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Antifungal
An antifungal medication, also known as an antimycotic medication, is a pharmaceutical fungicide or fungistatic used to treat and prevent mycosis such as athlete's foot, ringworm, candidiasis (thrush), serious systemic infections such as cryptococcal meningitis, and others.
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Antimicrobial chemotherapy
Antimicrobial chemotherapy is the clinical application of antimicrobial agents to treat infectious diseases. Antimicrobial and antimicrobial chemotherapy are antimicrobials.
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Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces
Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces can prevent frequently touched surfaces from serving as reservoirs for the spread of pathogenic microbes. Antimicrobial and Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces are antimicrobials.
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Antimicrobial properties of copper
Copper and its alloys (brasses, bronzes, cupronickel, copper-nickel-zinc, and others) are natural antimicrobial materials. Antimicrobial and antimicrobial properties of copper are antimicrobials.
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Antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from the effects of antimicrobials (drugs used to treat infections).
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Antiseptic
An antiseptic (lit and label) is an antimicrobial substance or compound that is applied to living tissue to reduce the possibility of sepsis, infection or putrefaction.
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Antiviral drug
Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used for treating viral infections. Antimicrobial and Antiviral drug are biocides.
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Athlete's foot, known medically as tinea pedis, is a common skin infection of the feet caused by a fungus.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
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Bactericide
A bactericide or bacteriocide, sometimes abbreviated Bcidal, is a substance which kills bacteria.
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Bacteriostatic agent
A bacteriostatic agent or bacteriostat, abbreviated Bstatic, is a biological or chemical agent that stops bacteria from reproducing, while not necessarily killing them otherwise.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Beta-lactam
A beta-lactam (β-lactam) ring is a four-membered lactam.
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Binah (magazine)
Binah (בינה, "Insight") is a Jewish women's magazine published weekly by Binah Magazine Corporation in the United States.
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Biocide
A biocide is defined in the European legislation as a chemical substance or microorganism intended to destroy, deter, render harmless, or exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism. Antimicrobial and biocide are biocides.
Bleach
Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product that is used industrially or domestically to remove colour (whitening) from fabric or fiber (in a process called bleaching) or to disinfect after cleaning.
Brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.
Candidiasis
Candidiasis is a fungal infection due to any species of the genus Candida (a yeast).
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Cathode ray
Cathode rays or electron beams (e-beam) are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes.
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Cell (biology)
The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.
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Cestoda
Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes).
Chagas disease
Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi.
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Chemical synthesis
Chemical synthesis (chemical combination) is the artificial execution of chemical reactions to obtain one or several products.
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Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus Cinnamomum.
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Citric acid
Citric acid is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
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Clostridioides difficile infection
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI or C-diff), also known as Clostridium difficile infection, is a symptomatic infection due to the spore-forming bacterium Clostridioides difficile.
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Cobalt-60
Cobalt-60 (Co) is a synthetic radioactive isotope of cobalt with a half-life of 5.2714 years.
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Cochrane (organisation)
Cochrane is a British international charitable organisation formed to synthesize medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health professionals, patients and policy makers.
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Coconut oil
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Cold sore
A cold sore is a type of herpes infection caused by the herpes simplex virus that affects primarily the lip.
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Commonly used gamma-emitting isotopes
Radionuclides which emit gamma radiation are valuable in a range of different industrial, scientific and medical technologies.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Cross-resistance
Cross-resistance is when something develops resistance to several substances that have a similar mechanism of action.
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Dairy
A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold.
Dermatophytosis
Dermatophytosis, also known as tinea and ringworm, is a fungal infection of the skin (a dermatomycosis), that may affect skin, hair, and nails.
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Diiodohydroxyquinoline
The quinoline derivative diiodohydroxyquinoline (INN), or iodoquinol (USAN), brand name Diodoquin, can be used in the treatment of amoebiasis.
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Disinfectant
A disinfectant is a chemical substance or compound used to inactivate or destroy microorganisms on inert surfaces.
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Edward Abraham
Sir Edward Penley Abraham, (10 June 1913 – 8 May 1999) was an English biochemist instrumental in the development of the first antibiotics penicillin and cephalosporin.
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Ernst Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.
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Escherichia coli
Escherichia coliWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.
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Essential oil
An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (easily evaporated at normal temperatures) chemical compounds from plants.
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Eukaryote
The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.
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Fecal microbiota transplant
Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT), also known as a stool transplant, is the process of transferring fecal bacteria and other microbes from a healthy individual into another individual.
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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Flora
Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.
Food irradiation
Food irradiation (sometimes radurization or radurisation) is the process of exposing food and food packaging to ionizing radiation, such as from gamma rays, x-rays, or electron beams.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
Fruit preserves
Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits whose main preserving agent is sugar and sometimes acid, often stored in glass jars and used as a condiment or spread.
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Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
Genital herpes
Genital herpes is a herpes infection of the genitals caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV).
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Gut microbiota
Gut microbiota, gut microbiome, or gut flora are the microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses, that live in the digestive tracts of animals.
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Health
Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time.
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (Heidlberg) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.
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Herbal medicine
Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.
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Herpesviridae
Herpesviridae is a large family of DNA viruses that cause infections and certain diseases in animals, including humans.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.
Howard Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, (24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.
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Human parasite
Human parasites include various protozoa and worms.
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Hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula.
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Indoor mold
Indoor mold (American English) or indoor mould (British English), also sometimes referred to as mildew, is a fungal growth that develops on wet materials in interior spaces.
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Influenza A virus
Influenza A virus (IAV) is a pathogen with strains that infect birds and some mammals, as well as causing seasonal flu in humans.
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Influenza B virus
Influenza B virus is the only species in the genus Betainfluenzavirus in the virus family Orthomyxoviridae.
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Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare.
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Lactic acid
Lactic acid is an organic acid.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis is a wide array of clinical manifestations caused by protozoal parasites of the Trypanosomatida genus Leishmania.
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
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Macrolide
Macrolides are a class of mostly natural products with a large macrocyclic lactone ring to which one or more deoxy sugars, usually cladinose and desosamine, may be attached.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
Management of HIV/AIDS
The management of HIV/AIDS normally includes the use of multiple antiretroviral drugs as a strategy to control HIV infection.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Metagenomics is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental or clinical samples by a method called sequencing.
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Metronidazole
Metronidazole, sold under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication.
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Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Mold
A mold or mould is one of the structures that certain fungi can form.
Nanoparticle
A nanoparticle or ultrafine particle is a particle of matter 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter.
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Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
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Neuraminidase inhibitor
Neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs) are a class of drugs which block the neuraminidase enzyme.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
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Nucleoside analogue
Nucleoside analogues are structural analogues of a nucleoside, which normally contain a nucleobase and a sugar.
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Oil of clove
Oil of clove, also known as clove oil or eugenol, is an essential oil extracted from the clove plant, Syzygium aromaticum.
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Organic acid
An organic acid is an organic compound with acidic properties.
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Oseltamivir
Oseltamivir, sold under the brand name Tamiflu, is an antiviral medication used to treat and prevent influenza A and influenza B, viruses that cause the flu.
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Oven
A double oven A ceramic oven An oven is a tool which is used to expose materials to a hot environment.
Packaging
Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use.
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Pandemic
A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has a sudden increase in cases and spreads across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.
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Pasteurization
In the field of food processing, pasteurization (also pasteurisation) is a process of food preservation in which packaged and unpacked foods (e.g., milk and fruit juices) are treated with mild heat, usually to less than, to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life.
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Pathogenic bacteria
Pathogenic bacteria are bacteria that can cause disease.
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Penicillin
Penicillins (P, PCN or PEN) are a group of β-lactam antibiotics originally obtained from Penicillium moulds, principally P. chrysogenum and P. rubens.
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Penicillium rubens
Penicillium rubens is a species of fungus in the genus Penicillium and was the first species known to produce the antibiotic penicillin.
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Personal protective equipment
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection.
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Pharmaceutical industry
The pharmaceutical industry is an industry involved in medicine that discovers, develops, produces, and markets pharmaceutical goods for use as drugs that function by being administered to (or self-administered by) patients using such medications with the goal of curing and/or preventing disease (as well as possibly alleviating symptoms of illness and/or injury).
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Pharmacopoeia
A pharmacopoeia, pharmacopeia, or pharmacopoea (from the obsolete typography pharmacopœia, meaning "drug-making"), in its modern technical sense, is a book containing directions for the identification of compound medicines, and published by the authority of a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society.
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Pimenta racemosa
Pimenta racemosa is a species of plant in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) that is native to the Caribbean region.
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Probiotic
Probiotics are live microorganisms promoted with claims that they provide health benefits when consumed, generally by improving or restoring the gut microbiota.
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Protease inhibitor (pharmacology)
Protease inhibitors (PIs) are medications that act by interfering with enzymes that cleave proteins.
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Protozoa
Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.
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Quinolone antibiotic
Quinolone antibiotics constitute a large group of broad-spectrum bacteriocidals that share a bicyclic core structure related to the substance 4-quinolone.
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Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals.
Residue
Residue may refer to.
Respiratory tract infection
Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are infectious diseases involving the lower or upper respiratory tract.
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Retrovirus
A retrovirus is a type of virus that inserts a DNA copy of its RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell.
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Scrubs (clothing)
Scrubs, sometimes called surgical scrubs or nursing scrubs, are the sanitary clothing worn by physicians, nurses, dentists and other workers involved in patient care.
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Secondary metabolites, also called specialised metabolites, toxins, secondary products, or natural products, are organic compounds produced by any lifeform, e.g. bacteria, fungi, animals, or plants, which are not directly involved in the normal growth, development, or reproduction of the organism.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: sodium hydrogencarbonate), commonly known as baking soda or bicarbonate of soda, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3.
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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Staphylococcus
Staphylococcus is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria in the family Staphylococcaceae from the order Bacillales.
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Sulfonamide (medicine)
Sulfonamide is a functional group (a part of a molecule) that is the basis of several groups of drugs, which are called sulphonamides, sulfa drugs or sulpha drugs.
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Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.
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Terpenoid
The terpenoids, also known as isoprenoids, are a class of naturally occurring organic chemicals derived from the 5-carbon compound isoprene and its derivatives called terpenes, diterpenes, etc.
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Tetracycline antibiotics
Tetracyclines are a group of broad-spectrum antibiotic compounds that have a common basic structure and are either isolated directly from several species of Streptomyces bacteria or produced semi-synthetically from those isolated compounds.
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Thyme
Thyme is a culinary herb consisting of the dried aerial parts of some members of the genus Thymus of flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae.
Trematoda
Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as flukes or trematodes.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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Viral hepatitis
Viral hepatitis is liver inflammation due to a viral infection.
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Virucide
A virucide (alternatively spelled viricide) is any physical or chemical agent that deactivates or destroys viruses. Antimicrobial and virucide are biocides.
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Virus
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
Wastewater treatment
Wastewater treatment is a process which removes and eliminates contaminants from wastewater.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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X-ray
X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.
Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
2-Phenylphenol
2-Phenylphenol, or o-phenylphenol, is an organic compound.
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See also
Biocides
- Algaecides
- Anti-protist
- Antibiotics
- Antimicrobial
- Antimicrobials
- Antiparasitic
- Antiparasitic agents
- Antiprotozoal
- Antiprotozoal agents
- Antiviral drug
- Antiviral drugs
- Avicide
- Bactericides
- Biocide
- Biofumigation
- Biosolarization
- Diflubenzuron
- Ethylene oxide
- Fluorenol
- Fungicide
- Fungicides
- Herbicide
- Herbicides
- Insecticide
- Microbicides
- Molluscicides
- Oligodynamic effect
- Pesticide
- Pesticides
- Rodenticide
- Rodenticides
- Spermicide
- Sterilization (microbiology)
- TCMTB
- Virucide
- Virucides
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial
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