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Provedor de dados: 	58	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	The effectiveness of alcohol gel and other hand-cleansing agents against important nosocomial pathogens	
Autores: 	Hernandes,Silvio Evandro Daniel; Mello,Aline Cláudia de; Sant'Ana,Janete Jordão; Soares,Vanessa Sarto; Cassiolato,Valdir; Garcia,Lourdes Botelho; Cardoso,Celso Luíz.	
Data: 	2004-06-01	
Ano: 	2004	
Palavras-chave: 	Alcohol gel; Hand-cleansing agents; Nosocomial pathogens.	
Resumo: 	We compared the effectiveness of alcohol gel with that of the traditional hand-cleansing agents in removing clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Candida albicans from artificially contaminated hands. The fingertips of 6 volunteers were contaminated with approximately 10(6) of microbial cells, and then were washed with: plain liquid soap, alcohol gel, 70% ethyl alcohol (by weight), 10% povidone-iodine liquid soap (PVP-I), and 4% chlorhexidine gluconate detergent. The experiments were performed using a Latin square statistical design, with six 6 x 5 randomized blocks, and the results were estimated by ANOVA. The products reduced from 93.83% (plain liquid soap) to 100% (PVP-I) of the microbial population applied to the hands. In 4 of 6 test microorganisms analyzed, 10% PVP-I, alcohol gel, 70% ethyl alcohol, and 4% chlorhexidine had significantly higher removal rates than plain liquid soap (P &lt; 0.05). The results confirm the effectiveness of alcohol gel for hand hygiene and suggest that 10% PVP-I, alcohol gel, 70% ethyl alcohol, and 4% chlorhexidine may be more effective than plain liquid soap for removing A. baumannii, E. coli, E. faecalis, and C. albicans strains from heavily contaminated hands.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822004000100005	
Editor: 	Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1517-83822004000100005	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  v.35 n.1-2 2004	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess