What's the difference between disinfect and fumigate?

Disinfect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (2) The importance of proper disinfection of such equipment cannot be overemphasized.
  • (3) Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy.
  • (4) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
  • (5) To examine the possibility of prolongation of the standing times of instrument disinfectants, in vitro tests under high albumin exposure and tests in clinical practice were done.
  • (6) Chlorine dioxide disproportionation products, chlorite and chlorate, were not active disinfectants.
  • (7) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
  • (8) The methodology of microbiological evaluation of disinfectants in permanently being questioned because the laboratorial protocols do not correspond to the real conditions under which these products are used.
  • (9) For the management and prevention of the recurrent ascending infections long-term urinary disinfection and meticulous toilet of the external meatus are recommended.
  • (10) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.
  • (11) Defatting with acetone as part of the regimen for cutaneous disinfection does not improve microbial removal or reduce the incidence of catheter-related infection, but increases cutaneous inflammation and patient discomfort.
  • (12) Aim of the present paper is to verify in a vitro study, the possible disinfection of the toothbrushes with an UV instrument (Dentec 4000).
  • (13) The results of the inactivation studies indicate that in vitro excystation is an adequate indication of G. muris cyst infectivity for the host and can be used to determine the effects of disinfectants on cyst viability.
  • (14) The clorus water disinfecting conventional methods by many reasons are useless, even in urbanized cities.
  • (15) Main active materials in hand disinfectants are the alcohols ethanol, iso-propanol and n-propanol.
  • (16) Nurses were most often sensitized to penicillins and, of the disinfectants, formaldehyde was the commonest cause of occupational dermatitis.
  • (17) Prophylactic measures exist--disinfection of the genital tract, elective cesarean section, administration of antivirals and Acyclovir in particular.
  • (18) They want disinfectant and mops, they say, and they have only two delivery kits left.
  • (19) The instrument disinfectants showed microbicidal efficacy up to 12 days at working concentrations slightly increased in relation to the concentrations listed by the DGHM.
  • (20) Autoclavable or heat tolerant rigid endoscopes are now available but flexible endoscopes will not tolerate heat disinfection temperatures.

Fumigate


Definition:

  • (n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
  • (n.) To smoke; to perfume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples of raw cereals imported in Italy and of other foodstuffs that can be treated with bromine-containing fumigants were analysed for the total bromide content.
  • (2) The third one concern post-operation days: cubicle initial fumigation, high efficiency filtration and positive pressure air, strict protective insulation, single-use things, controlled food, specific anti viral prevention, catheters and tubes removal or replacement.
  • (3) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
  • (4) Methyl bromide is commonly used as a soil fumigant in greenhouses.
  • (5) The recent trends in the possible use of irradiation as an alternative treatment to chemical fumigants for disinfestation of citrus and avocados and the prospects for the future application of irradiation for preservation of some of these fruits are outlined.
  • (6) Methyl bromide is a nearly odorless, volatile hydrocarbon used as a fumigant in the food industry.
  • (7) A field trial was conducted near Kelowna, British Columbia, to determine the effect of biological treatments alone and in combination with formalin fumigation in apple replant disease soil.
  • (8) Mononuclear lymphocytes were isolated from the blood of 12 individuals, who had been exposed to the vapour of the soil fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene (DCP).
  • (9) To examine whether long term occupational exposure to ethylene dibromide (EDB) affects semen quality a cross sectional study of semen quality was conducted among 46 men employed in the papaya fumigation industry in Hawaii, with an average duration of exposure of five years and a geometric mean breathing zone exposure to airborne EDB of 88 ppb (eight hour time weighted average) and peak exposures of up to 262 ppb.
  • (10) Methyl bromide and bromide ion concentrations were estimated in pasta manufactured before and after fumigation with methyl bromide.
  • (11) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.
  • (12) Guidelines are offered along with a procedural checklist for the investigation of tent fumigation deaths.
  • (13) The fumigator used 15 kg of methyl bromide (2 cylinders), a quantity far greater than usual.
  • (14) Various measures for controlling it in the tissue culture laboratory are briefly discussed, such as use of antifungal antibiotics, fumigation with formaldehyde and heat sterilisation of the incubator.
  • (15) A procedure based on extraction, column chromatography and precipitation is described for the separation of ethylene oxide-1,2-14C fumigated coca-powder derivatives in 9 different groups.
  • (16) Following removal of polyethylene sheets covering soil fumigated with methyl bromide, four field-workers developed fatigue and light-headedness and 3 workers noted progressive respiratory, gastrointestinal (GI), and neurologic symptoms.
  • (17) The cases described provide a model for the investigation of tent fumigation deaths.
  • (18) Analysis of methyl bromide was carried out directly on the food products without preliminary extraction of fumigant.
  • (19) Preliminary experiments with other fumigants were carried out as well.
  • (20) Bacteria and virus used in the experiments, as well as air-borne organisms in the house, were perfectly inactivated by fumigation for 24 hours at the level of formalin mentioned above.

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