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antiseptic

an agent or substance that prevents infection by killing germs
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antiseptic

[¦an·tə¦sep·tik]
(microbiology)
A substance used to destroy or prevent the growth of infectious microorganisms on or in the human or animal body.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Antibacterial coatings are materials that prevent the bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation on the surface of medical implants.
Total antibacterial drug prescriptions are presented as frequencies and as medians per infant and per infant-month of follow-up.
One group of patients received Arikayce plus a background multi-drug antibacterial regimen, while the other treatment group received a background multi-drug antibacterial regimen alone.
Agar diffusion with a perforation technique was used as the method for antibacterial activity tested.
In this respect, this research study conducted controlled in vitro tests: First, to compare the antibacterial effectiveness of five conventional functional clothes for AD treatment by quantitative international standard suspension tests.
Rashed determined the antibacterial activity of some medicinal plants and seeds against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus [1].
Bacterial antibiotic resistance mechanisms characterized as due to inactivation of the antibiotic, elimination of antibiotic drug from bacterial cell and adaptation of the bacterial cell in different environment resulted in nonbinding of antibiotic effectively towards antibacterial agent.
FDA's informal statement in a public blog post urging consumers to "skip" using antibacterial soaps was, in our view, an ill-considered and misguided PR statement.
"Consumers may think antibacterial washes are more effective at preventing the spread of germs, but we have no scientific evidence that they are any better than plain soap and water," stated Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, earlier this month.
In announcing its ban, on September 2, the FDA said it found no evidence that antibacterial soaps were any more effective in preventing infection than plain soap and water.
The next time you lather up with commercial antibacterial products, stop and read the ingredients listed on its label.
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