Talk:Antimicrobial

message: The current page has been written from the perspective of alternative medicines and does not reflect much understanding of the term antimicrobial.  For example, the common use of the term antibiotic to describe any antimicrobial, semi-synthetic or synthetic antimicrobial does not properly differentiate them, which is what an encyclopedia is supposed to do.  Yet the author seems satisfied to not differentiate the various antimicrobials into antiviral, antihelminthic and so on, and just lump any antimicrobial into the group antibiotic.  The remainder of his/her discussion is alarmism and folkloric claptrap.  Resistance to antimicrobials is certainly an issue which most people are aware of, but there is no discussion of the mechanisms, progression of the problem or possible routes of avoidance.  Traditional medicine may occasionally use extracts with antimicrobial properties, but traditional healers rely on traditions that were in existence in times before the discovery of microbes, before the refutation of the theory of spontaneous generation and before the discovery of antibiotics or the description of their mechanisms of action.  In other words, traditional medicine has no scientific basis and should not be relied upon as a source of information about antimicrobials, which spring from the application of scientific method. At best, it is a footnote about the origin of quinine and artemisinin and their chemical derivatives in the treatment and prevention of malaria. 
--Eukaryotica 15:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: I believe I improved the article quite a bit. I removed the large section on nitrofuranes (which was incoherent, lacked formatting and belongs to the appropriate Wiki page, not here) and most of the information about antimicrobial elements/ions (which also belongs elsewhere and needs editing and several citations to be encyclopedic). I created sections for antifungals, antivirals and antiparasitics, which were previously missing. I fetched the content from the respective pages and edited it a bit. It's far from perfect, but better than having a page about antimicrobials without any information about these classes of drugs. I removed the POV tag, as I believe the article is now fairly neutral. At least it isn't so heavily focused on alternative medicine any more.
I fixed a lot of other things too, hopefully didn't make too many errors (I'm well versed in pharmacology and know my way around microbiology as well, but there were some things I didn't completely understand (eg. the nitroglycerine thing). DiamonDie 13:25, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attempted fixing 

message: This article is full of outright inaccuracies such as the very first line, "Antimicrobial is a property typically associated with substances of a liquid composition."  Where did someone get the idea that antimicrobial substances were often thought of as liquids?  Never mind that pills and UV light can be antimicrobial.  Also, its not really balanced.  The section labelled "Classes" is actually about antibiotics.  Granted, antibiotics are antimicrobial substances.  However, nothing is mentioned of physical agents such as moist heat, pasteurization, etc or chemical disinfectants like bleach and phenol. Finally, many of the subtopics that are currently listed should just be a link to their individual page. Example is "Antiparasitics," which should just link to that section.  
I would like to suggest the outline below for this topic.  
# Terminology
# Microbial Characteristics in Antimicrobial Control
# Rate of Microbial Death
# Actions of Microbial Control Agents
## Alteration of Membrane Permeability
## Damage to Proteins and Nucleic Acids
# Physical Methods of Microbial Control
## Heat
### Dry Heat
### Moist Heat
### Pasteurization
## Filtration
## Low Temperature
## High Pressure
## Desiccation
## Osmotic Pressure
## Radiation
### Ionizing Radiation
### Nonionizing Radiation
### Microwaves
# Chemical Methods of Microbial Control
## Evaluation of a Disinfectant
## Types of Disinfectants
### Phenols
### Bisphenols
### Biguanides
### Halogens
### Alcohols
### Heavy Metals
### Surfactants
### Acid-Anionic Sanitizer
### Quats
### Chemical Food Preservatives
### Antibiotics
### Aldehydes
### Chemical Sterilization
### Plasmas
### Supercritical Fluids
### Peroxygens and Other Forms of Oxygen
#  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sannwn (talk • contribs) 18:04, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sloppy and unbalanced 

message: I've just removed :File:AntiMicrobial Symbol.png from this page for a second time. The rationale for the addition was that it is "used in plastics products containing antimicrobial material to identify as such", but I can't find references to it online, and it seems likely that even if it's mandated, the use would be regional and not universal. Given the above, I feel that the symbol should not be in this article. Barring consensus otherwise or reliable sources showing significant prevalence, it probably shouldn't be added again. wctaiwan (talk) 19:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Because there's no evidence that the symbol is significant or prevalent enough to warrant any mention. You might have a point if the symbol was as common as, say, the resin identification codes, but it doesn't seem to be the case. wctaiwan (talk) 17:50, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symbol 

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message: Microbicide is synonym and a stub page; merging here would be better for readers. Klbrain (talk) 12:55, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal