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LOW TEMPERATURE DRY HEAT STERILIZATION
Author(s) -
Clapp K. H.,
Derrington A. W.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1969.tb105663.x
Subject(s) - dry heat , sterilization (economics) , spore , maximum temperature , materials science , horticulture , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , composite material , thermodynamics , physics , monetary economics , economics , foreign exchange market , foreign exchange
Oxoid B. stearothermophilus spore strips are acceptable products for the testing of dry heat at 120°C, because they produce reasonably comparable dose‐responsive curves. B. subtilis spores are more resistant to dry heat at 120°C, but they are more markedly affected by environmental variations. CI. tetani spores are probably no more resistant to dry heat at 120°C than are B. stearothermophilus. Neoflex ureteric catheters and some ophthalmic electrical wires are most reliably sterilized by exposure to dry heat at 120°C for a period of six hours in a fan oven, but woven nylon brands quickly become brittle.