Evolution Vs. mutation
written by : MUNES SALAH BAROUD – JORDAN
Nature works in one system which is giving every kind of life has the chance to survive equally therefore humans has that chance as well as animals as well microorganisms. And because of that they survival battle keeps going the difference is by name only. We call the human survival EVELUTION and the microorganism survival MUTATION and that the name of the battle
Our enemy has more advantages than we do, they breed faster, they develop faster, they build infrastructure faster (biofilm), and they are invisible to our vision that makes them very strong as if we try to kill them and some of them survive they become resistant to our method and that what we face in MDRs ( multi drug resistant) so they become harder to kill each time we try
Now as we now that our concept of killing goes by the value of log reduction so we call cleaning is log-2 reduction, disinfection log-4 reduction and sterility is log-6. And to put it in words it means every 100 microorganism one may not die and so on and that makes the resistance as we know it
The killing process normally works in two methods (chemical and physical)
Chemical is by using special chemical (aldehyde products, quits, and even hydrogen peroxide) and those are not safe for the environment or high killing efficacy to reach sterility level (more details about this part in the next article)
Using physics on the other hand will demolish the sell structure using the energy in many forms to reach a full killing capacity. That is what happens in the autoclave system and other systems used in CSSD (this topic will be in a separate article). To protect the sterility from the time of sterilization till the time of use we package the instruments following a strict regulation system called SBS (sterile barrier system) as it is a requirement for anything to go into a blood stream
But the microorganism does not stop on that level as we learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic that made us realize that they bread faster and mutate stronger and behave in different ways and the methods and regulations not enough to fight back and win. Actually the on hand systems made more MDRs than before and the threat did not stop from one kind of microorganisms but from so many kinds that were under control but now they are not combined by the bad immunity in our bodies that made us a weak target in this war for survival.
To make a summery we are facing a fast growth rate in a strong mutation cycle that kill the environment very quickly
So we need a system to be faster in killing stronger to defeat the strength of mutation and keep the environment under the green umbrella so we win and make EVOLUTION win against MUTATION
To be continued…….