Micro vocab
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| Decontamination? | to remove or destroy contaminants
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| Sterilization? | to remove or destroy all viable living organisms
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| Sanitization? | removing microbes and debris from non-living objects
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| Disinfection? | destruction of vegetative microbes on non-living objects
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| Antiseptic? | removing microbes on living tissues
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| Sepsis? | growth of microbes in tissues
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| Chemotherapeutic drug? | any chemical used as treatment of a disease
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| Prophylaxis? | a drug used to prevent potential infection of a person at risk
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| Antimicrobial chemotherapy? | the use of chemotherapeutic drugs to control infection
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| Antimicrobials? | any antimicrobial drug, regardless of its origin
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| Antibiotics? | substances produced by the natural metabolic processes of some microorganisms that can inhibit or destroy other microorganisms
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| Semisynthetic drugs? | drugs that are chemically modified in the lab after being isolated from natural sources
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| Synthetic drugs? | Antimicrobial compounds synthesized in the laboratory through chemical reactions
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| Narrow spectrum? (limited spectrum) | Antimicrobials effective against a limited array of microbial types; EX: a drug effective mainly on gram-positive bacteria
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| Broad spectrum? (extended spectrum) | Antimicrobials effective against a wide variety of microbial types; Ex: a drug effective for gram p and gram neg bacteria
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