World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

EFFECTIVENESS AND EVALUATION OF VARIOUS DISINFECTANTS ROUTINELY USED IN CLINICAL LABORATORY AND HOSPITAL

Shweta, Naresh Kumar*

ABSTRACT

Disinfectants are the chemicals agent which is intended to kill the microorganism or which is used to stop the activity of microorganism. The experiment is conducted to investigate the effect of different disinfectants against the different pathogens purchased from ATCC. The strains were both which usually sensitive and few resistant organisms also used as control.[1] There is different type of disinfectant which is used in hospitals and laboratories to control the hospital-acquired infections. Therefore a comparative study was done to find out the effectiveness of supplied disinfectants in clinical labs and hospital.[2] The advantage of this study will help in the reduction of nosocomial infection or hospital-acquired infection.[3] The disinfectants considered for study having their own ideal characteristics, properties and mode of action. In this study total six different disinfectants were used. This study was done to check the efficacy of each disinfectant with time exposure. In this study few disinfectants showed satisfactory result and for few unsatisfactory results. Hospital-acquired infections are not new kind of infection but day by incidences of HAI increasing so mild safety measures can be helpful in decrease of HAIs. A disinfectant who’s having ideal characteristics is offering complete sterilization without harming other forms of life. Disinfectant failure could increase microbial load and cause nosocomial infection. Each laboratory and hospital should have a written disinfectant policy specifying the kind and concentration of disinfectant for each type of use.

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