For Each Item Listed Below, Select a Sterilant That You

question 43

Essay

For each item listed below, select a sterilant that you feel is the most suitable and effective for that item.Discuss why you selected each sterilant.
A) plastic Petri dishes to be used for nutrient media
B) glass tubes of bacterial cultures to be discarded
C) sterile milk
D) dozens of reusable glass pipets
E) bone tissue for grafting
F) room air
G) hospital mattresses
H) biopsy tissue for histology analysis
I) plastic respiratory therapy equipment and arthroscopes
J) vaccines

• A) plastic Petri dishes to be used for nutrient media
• B) glass tubes of bacterial cultures to be discarded
• C) sterile milk
• D) dozens of reusable glass pipets
• E) bone tissue for grafting
• F) room air
• G) hospital mattresses
• H) biopsy tissue for histology analysis
• I) plastic respiratory therapy equipment and arthroscopes
• J) vaccines

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