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.
Sterilization: Killing or removing all forms of. microbial life(including endospores) in a material. or an object. Heating is the most commonly used method of. sterilization. Commercial Sterilization : Heat treatment that. kills endospores of Clostridium botulinum the. causative agent of botulism, in canned food.