“…Not all the studies referred to a sample sterilization process before the antibacterial tests, and only 41 of the 82 studies specified the use of a specific protocol. Among these, a wide variety of techniques were employed, sterilization through ethylene oxide being the most commonly used [4,10,11,19,[26][27][28][29]33,34,36,37,40,[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][51][52][53][54]56,57,75,77]. Less commonly used sterilization techniques were: autoclave [3,58], gamma radiation [12,16,83], ultraviolet light [78,80,82,88,90], and incubation in 70% ethanol [30,91,92].…”