Shingles is an infection by the herpes zoster virus, which also causes chicken pox. This happens in people who have had chicken pox and the virus present in the nerve reactivates later on in life. Shingles causes a painful rash on one side of your body and can affect your ears.
Moist heat sterilization is a technique that uses heated water and superheated steam to disinfect contaminated materials, such as culture media, surgical instruments, glassware and other non-thermally sensitive items.
While both dry-heat sterilization and moist-heat treatment can get similar results with many loads, there are some tasks that are not practical with a steam autoclave. These include loads that are hydrophobic (such as fats and oils) or will be damaged by moisture (such as powders). A dry-heat process is vital for sterilizing instruments that are at risk of corrosion. Dry-heat also works well with glassware. But dry-heat sterilizers are by no means an all purpose solution. Liquids cannot be dry-heat sterilized (or theyâll simply boil off), nor can laboratory growth media, nor many flammable loads.