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Are you sure? This article claims that we are seeing bacteria evolve to better tolerate alcohols: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322646#Alcohol-resis

• throwup238 2y ago
  The paper is titled ” Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to _handwash_ alcohols” [1]. They’re tolerating small concentrations of alcohol used in hand sanitizer, not a concentrated disinfectant. [1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aar6115 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aar6115
  • realharo 2y ago
    The concentration of alcohol in hand sanitizers is like 70%, not small.
  • Mistletoe 2y ago
    Thank you for the interesting article! The response letter at the bottom- “Is the effectiveness of alcohol-based handrubs against enterococci really compromised?” by INGEBORG SCHWEBKE has some interesting counterpoints and implies they used 23% isopropanol instead of 70%, which is not enough to sterilize.
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