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.
Dry Heat Autoclave Sterilizers. Sophisticated sterilization equipment is essential to a functioning surgical, dental or medical environment. Although dry heat sterilization is a fairly old technique, it offers benefits steam sterilization. Steam sterilization is likely to corrode metal instruments due to the moisture where dry-heat lacks moisture during the reprocessing workflow.