The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

Bench top sterilizers are autoclaves that use moist heat at extremely high temperatures to sterilize equipment. Available as two main types, the traditional bench top, nonvacuum autoclaves are ...

To begin, can you give us an introduction into autoclaves? Autoclaves are sterilizers that use steam as the sterilant and were first invented in 1879. They are now used globally by millions every day ...

A solar-driven autoclave could sterilize medical equipment at low cost in remote locations. Here, a prototype device is evaluated in a "real world" situation set up in a field research site in Mumbai, ...