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Re:Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing ant... by hedora on Friday December 22, 2023 @07:17PM (#38740344)
> passage ways: doors, handles, stairs handrails, subway grab bars... All the things that propagate infections in very dense populated areas

Sterilizing those often increases disease spread. By default, they are covered with a microbial community that can outcompete things that are human pathogens.

If you sterilize it, then you’re either leaving a coating of food (mostly dead skin cells) for pathogens to eat, or a coating of nasty poisons that strip the protective barrier off people’s skins, which undermines their ability to fight off what pathogens they do end up touching.

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Re:Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing ant... by CrHn3 on Friday December 22, 2023 @08:46PM (#38740884)
I believe you mean sanitize, not sterilize.

Probiotics can be applied to mitigate undesirable bacterial growth after sanitizing [1].

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7350316/

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Re:Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing ant... by BiteCode_dev on Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:25AM (#38742838)
Not with such material which kills everything.
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