Timeline for Can single-Use Gloves carry bacteria on their outer surface?
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| Jun 30, 2023 at 14:49 | vote | accept | Freezing Soul | ||
| Jun 30, 2023 at 9:24 | comment | added | bob1 | @FreezingSoul No, bacteria etc do not especially adhere to the gloves. The gloves are there to protect you from your sample, and to protect your sample from you! They do not prevent transference of biologicals from one surface to another. If you contaminate your gloves (as you do when you put them on) and then touch another surface, you will contaminate that surface, whether it be you or a sample, test, phone, tube or anything else. Hence the advice to use aseptic technique. Gloves are not sterile in the box! | |
| Jun 30, 2023 at 8:55 | comment | added | Freezing Soul | I meant to "contaminate the items" not "the gloves", maybe gloves adhere too strong to bacteria as to trap them so they can't be transferred elsewhere or not let them adhere at all. | |
| Jun 30, 2023 at 8:36 | history | answered | bob1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |