What's the difference between germicide and vermicide?
Germicide
Definition:
(a.) Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases.
(n.) A germicide agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Criteria for the germicide used for hydrotherapy must include effectiveness against the organism, absence of gross side effects, and conservation of human effort and materials.
(2) A variety of soaps, detergents, germicides, and protective gloves are available for use by health care workers.
(3) Reusing hemodialyzers more than 20 times and, in some instances, also using manual reprocessing systems was significantly associated with clustering of pyrogenic reactions regardless of the type of germicide used.
(4) Diluted DOMESTOS proved to be a cleaning agent and germicide, but was, however, blamed for chlorine odour, especially when diluted with warm water.
(5) Problems of detection and elimination of the organism from contaminated water sources and the inadequacy of iodide germicides in eliminating Pseudomonas are discussed.
(6) With two of the tested indicators, KILIT and STERIKON, success of the germicidal process can also be seen by the change of color of the contents of the ampules.
(7) To determine the germicidal activity a method needs to pass the test, the germicidal effect has been assessed starting from the inoculum applied in the medication mixture and, in case of tests that consider the absence of growth in the subcultures as end-point, the minimum extinction required.
(8) The efficacy of an acrylic latex barrier teat dip with germicide on new infections at parturition was tested on 113 cows and heifers during the prepartum period.
(9) The complete germicidal action against all sorts of bacteria was shown in suspension-tests.
(10) It may be shown, that unsymmetrically substituted animals have both germistatic activity mainly versus Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis and germicidal activity especially versus Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Micosporum gypseum.
(11) The results of this study support recommendations to use 4% HCHO or a chemical germicidal equivalent for disinfecting dialyzers that are to be reused.
(12) In trial 3, a teat germicide aged at ambient temperature for 33 mo, which was originally formulated to contain 1% Lauricidin, 5% caprylic and capric acids, and 6% lactic acid, was evaluated.
(13) The germicide was aged at 40 degrees C for 5 mo, which was approximately equal to 2 yr at room temperature (24 degrees C).
(14) However, all Legionella species tested effectively countered the germicidal effect of UV when subsequently exposed to photoreactiving light.
(15) Unscheduled deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis in cultured fibroblasts (XP126LO) after irradiation with germicidal ultraviolet light was reduced to 13% of control values during the first 2 hours and rose to 45% of normal by 7 to 8 hours.
(16) Renalin was the germicide used to manually disinfect dialyzers for reuse and was prepared at a concentration of 2.5%.
(17) In continuation of the research in the field of germicidal and antimycotic agents, the synthesis of 14 new derivatives of di-2-benzimidazolyl-2,5-furan is described.
(18) The efficacy of iodophor germicides containing different concentrations of available iodine against transient (inoculated) bacteria and the natural hand microflora was compared with chlorhexidine gluconate (2 and 4%) liquid detergent (Hibitane), non-germicidal soap and a tap water rinse.
(19) The germistatic activity, demonstrated by the MIC-test, is much higher than the germicidal effect (figs.
(20) The germicidal activity of the formulation against mastitis pathogens was measured on teat skin of live cows.
Vermicide
Definition:
(n.) A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results indicated that the vermicidal component of LP cells was associated with the pellet fraction of disrupted centrifuged LP cells, but was not linked to a peroxidase-H2O2-halide system.
(2) In a clinical trial of metronidazole for dracunculiasis (75 cases), the drug was effective in giving symptomatic relief but had no preventive or vermicidal action.
(3) In a preliminary communication we reported that mebendazole, a vermicide, decreased plasma glucose and free fatty acid concentrations and increased plasma C peptide concentrations in both type II diabetic patients.
(4) In a double-blind study in Cameroon the vermicidal effect of Ciclobendazole, a new Benzimidazole derivative, was evaluated and compared to Mebendazole.