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[Antisepsis and disinfection: the necessity of a conceptual demarcation]
D H Gröschel1, A Kramer, A P Krasilnikow
1Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville.
Zentralblatt Fur Hygiene Und Umweltmedizin = International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
Increasing international cooperation in the areas of research, teaching, trade and healthcare has called for standardization of the terminology. In disinfection and antisepsis such efforts have been pursued for almost 20 years but without great success. This contribution to the definition of antisepsis and its clear separation from disinfection is supposed to promote international discussion. German terms for skin, mucosa and wound antisepsis are proposed which permit to restrict the term disinfection to the application of antimicrobial measures to inanimate objects and surfaces.