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Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium, Windsor, Ontario,
Canada, 26-31 August 1990
My professional interest in antimicrobial agents and contamination
control goes back 50 years to my tour as a microbiologist in a
field hospital in Europe during World War II. With no experience
and relying solely on a military handbook, I prepared thermometer
trays with jars of blue bichloride of mercury and pink isopropyl
alcohol. A preliminary typhoid diagnosis of one of our cooks
resulted in the need for lab testing. His stool specimen and its
subsequent disposal was my problem. My handbook said bum it. So
burn it T did, in a five-gallon can with gasoline. Flames shot up
almost six feet, and my next mistake was to extinguish them with
carbon tetrachloride. This resulted in the production of lethal
phosgene gas. The hospital had a near disaster. I could say that at
that moment I vowed to write a how-to book so that such stupidities
could be avoided. Nevertheless, when I was offered the opportunity
to edit this book I thought back on the need for a real, practical
treatment of my subject. This book, then, is a practical handbook
for technical service personnel and scientists who are not
necessarily specialists in microbiology. It provides information on
suitable antimicrobial agents appropriate to their particular
problem-solving needs and information on the microbial groups
contributing to the specific problem, their ecologies, and
strategies for controlling their access to the area or material of
interest.
My professional interest in antimicrobial agents and contamination
control goes back 50 years to my tour as a microbiologist in a
field hospital in Europe during World War II. With no experience
and relying solely on a military handbook, I prepared thermometer
trays with jars of blue bichloride of mercury and pink isopropyl
alcohol. A preliminary typhoid diagnosis of one of our cooks
resulted in the need for lab testing. His stool specimen and its
subsequent disposal was my problem. My handbook said bum it. So
burn it T did, in a five-gallon can with gasoline. Flames shot up
almost six feet, and my next mistake was to extinguish them with
carbon tetrachloride. This resulted in the production of lethal
phosgene gas. The hospital had a near disaster. I could say that at
that moment I vowed to write a how-to book so that such stupidities
could be avoided. Nevertheless, when I was offered the opportunity
to edit this book I thought back on the need for a real, practical
treatment of my subject. This book, then, is a practical handbook
for technical service personnel and scientists who are not
necessarily specialists in microbiology. It provides information on
suitable antimicrobial agents appropriate to their particular
problem-solving needs and information on the microbial groups
contributing to the specific problem, their ecologies, and
strategies for controlling their access to the area or material of
interest.
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