English-Spanish translations for antimicrobial

• antimicrobiano
  Los agentes antimicrobianos son, sin duda, muy útiles cuando se usan de forma adecuada. Antimicrobial agents are undoubtedly very useful when properly used.
  Amenaza de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos para la salud pública ( Public health threat of antimicrobial resistance (
  El proyecto, la Agencia europea de vigilancia del consumo de medicamentos antimicrobianos de uso veterinario (ESVAC), se inició en el tercer trimestre de 2009. The project, the European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption (ESVAC), started in the third quarter of 2009.

Definition of antimicrobial

• tending to destroy or capable of destroying microbes
• preventing or counteracting the pathogenic action of microbes
• an agent that destroys microbes, inhibits their growth, or prevents or counteracts their pathogenic action

Related words

• antimicrobic
• antimicrotubule
• antimicrobial stewardship