disinfectant

[icepeaks635]

disinfectant are those which kills the microorganism but not their spores.

[Blahah]

Disinfection in our labs means reducing the microbial load but not necessarily killing all microorganisms or their spores. As opposed to sterilisation, which kills all the microorganisms and their spores.

[JorgeLobo]

A disinfectant kills vegetative cells of pathogenic microbes on inanimate surfaces. Compare to a sterilant that kills vegetative cells and spores of spore forming bacteria on inanimate surfaces and an antiseptic that kills bacteria on animate surfaces.