Assessment and verification of commercially available pressure cookers for laboratory sterilization.

Laboratory science requires careful maintenance of sterile reagents and tools as well as the sterilization of waste prior to disposal. However, steam autoclaves typically used for this purpose may not be readily accessible to everyone in the scientific community, such as K-12 teachers, researchers i...

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Main Authors: Vaille A Swenson, Amanda D Stacy, Michael O Gaylor, Blake Ushijima, Benjamin Philmus, Loralyn M Cozy, Nina M Videau, Patrick Videau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208769