You are working as a scientific consultant for the IPCC. Your job is to apply what you have learned about the microbial growth requirements and antimicrobial control to formulate each of the client cases listed below. Be sure to include detailed recommendations for concentration, drug dose, temperature, time, pore size, wavelength, and microbe, etc., needed to effectively treat each case.
Case Study 2b: You Make Me Sick CDC Guidelines for Sterilization in Healthcare Settings
Dr. Dee Syntery has been working all night with sick patients in the Emergency Room at Mount Microbius General Hospital. She has just been called in to assist with a surgical procedure on a patient infected with drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. She is in a hurry and she needs to know what methods of physical and chemical control she should use to protect both her patient and herself. She calls the Institute of Physical & Chemical Control (IPCC) Hotline (800-MICROBE) and asks you for help. There are many different types of physical control methods that can be used to control unwanted microbial growth. Note that sterilization techniques are often needed to effectively destroy Mycobacterium tuberculosis.