Antisepsis, Disinfection, and Sterilization [Hardback]

Targeting an audience that includes microbiologists, chemists, facilities managers, health care professionals, infection and contamination control practitioners, and application engineers, McDonnell (vice president of research and European Medicines Agency affairs, STERIS Limited, UK) intends this work to give a basic understanding of microbial control methods and technologies of chemical and physical antisepsis, disinfection, and sterilization. He opens with a discussion of general microbiology, subsequently describing methods of physical and chemical contamination control and disinfection, antiseptics and antisepsis, physical and chemical sterilization, mechanisms of action, and mechanisms of microbial resistance. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)