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.
The dry heat sterilization process takes much longer even at higher temperatures than steam sterilization. For dry heat sterilization at a temperature of 180Â°C an exposure time of 30 minutes is needed. I hope this will help you to understand the nature of steam and the critical role it plays in the sterilization process. Generating the ideal conditions for saturated steam will positively impact the sterilization results. Wet steam or superheated steam are problematic.