Sterilization
Sterilization
Sterilization is a process used to achieve sterility. Sterilization an absolute term means the absence of all micro-organism or the freeing of an article from all living organisms including bacterial spores, microbacterial, non lipid viruses and fungi. (134) Sterilization is the total destruction of all microbes including the more resilient forms, Sterilization procedures are important for eliminating all microbes. (135) Sterilization required in medical practice for instruments and materials used in procedures that involve penetration into normally sterile parts of the body, in surgical operations intravenous infusions, hypodermic infection and diagnostic aspiration. It is also required for media, reagents and equipment used in laboratory practice.
