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The paper is titled ” Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to _handwash_ alcohols” [1]. They’re tolerating small concentrations of alcohol used
by 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 agoThe concentration of alcohol in hand sanitizers is like 70%, not small.
- Mistletoe 2y agoThank 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.