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I'm not up on indistrial disinfectants. For hard surface cleaning such as carriers or litter boxes and eating dishes, I always relied on chlorine bleach. When I've been on a disaster response and we've had quarantine conditions, we used bleach in the footbaths, It has to be refreshed daily, because sunlight degrades it. Detergent or waste solids also will negate the disinfecting properties of bleach. When we use it on dishes in a shelter setting, we usually have three huge wash tubs; wash, wrinse, and bleach soak, in that order. I've had occational bouts of ringworm, and another rescuer turned me on to a broduct called Odo-Ban. It's a cleaning product that deoderises by killing odor causing bacteria. I've only found it available at Sam's Club stores in the US, and it comes as a gallon of concentrate and a spray bottle to mix it in. 5 oz to one gallon water is for normal cleaning, 7 oz to a gallon is the dilution for killing athlet's foot fungus. Ringworm fungus spoors are very similar to athlete's foot fungus, and miconozol nitrate is the topical treatment for both, so I figure any cleaner that kills Athlete's foot will also kill ringworm. The cats kept passing it around, so I would treat them daily with the miconozol nitrate, then once a month they got a heavy dose of Program, a bath with fungasidal shampoo, were put in freshly disinfected carriers to dry off while I scrubbed down the bathroom where they were being kept with the Odo-Ban, wrinsed, and then all surfaces were misted with bleachwater and allowd to dry. That combination finally got rid of it.
Lysol is a good disinfectant, but in liquid form it is highly toxic and deadly to cats and dogs, who can absorb it through their paw pads. I don't remember the active ingredient that is toxic, but basicly any cleaner with the -sol suffix should be avoided. When in doubt, a 10% bleach solution is safe to use around mamals.
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