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.
Heat is one of the most effective physical agents used in sterilization, where the structural proteins and enzymes of microbes are completely denatured. Aside from moist heat sterilization, common heat treatments also include direct flame, dry heat, tyndallization and pasteurization.