Micro 3: Sterilisation, Disinfection, and Antisepsis
This episode shifts the series from understanding microbes to controlling them. Building on Murray’s framework, it examines how medicine deliberately interrupts microbial survival through sterilisation, disinfection, and antisepsis - three related but fundamentally different strategies.
Rather than treating these as procedural checklists, the episode explores the underlying logic: which microbes are most resistant, which environments demand absolute sterility, and where partial reduction is sufficient. The concepts of microbial load, resistance, and context are central. Heat, chemicals…
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