Control of Microbial Growth
It can be defined as the process to inhibit or prevent the growth of the population of microorganisms. It usually involves the use of physical and chemical agents to the growth of microorganisms. It is very important to control the growth of microorganisms, especially in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, academic research, medical field, and food industry.
Sterilization
It is a method for the destruction of all forms of vegetative growth and endospores from a medium. In other words, sterilization can be defined as a method of killing every microbial organism such as bacteria, fungi, etc. present in an object or a medium. There are different strategies present to sterilize an object, like physical methods and chemical methods of microbial control.
what are various physical methods used by microbiologists to control microbial growth?
The growth of microbes needs to be controlled to prevent unwanted microbial contamination and transmission of diseases and infection. Microorganisms growth can be controlled either by physical methods or chemical agents. The Physical methods include control agents such as high or low temperatures, desiccation, osmotic pressure, radiation, and filtration. Whereas chemical agents involve the use of disinfectants, antiseptics, antibiotics, and chemotherapeutic antimicrobial chemicals for controlling microbes growth.
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