1. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sensitivity to isopropyl alcohol before and after implementing alcohol hand rubbing in a hospital
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Alfredo Ponce de León, Consuelo G Tinajero, Jose A. Alvarez, Juan L. Mosqueda, Alejandro E. Macías, and Miriam Bobadilla-del Valle
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Epidemiology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Enterococcus faecium ,Alcohol ,Microbial Sensitivity Tests ,Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci ,2-Propanol ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Hygiene ,Hand rubbing ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Food science ,Alcohol tolerance ,Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections ,Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium ,media_common ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,030306 microbiology ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Isopropyl alcohol ,Drug Tolerance ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,biology.organism_classification ,Hospitals ,Infectious Diseases ,chemistry ,business ,Disinfectants ,Hand Disinfection - Abstract
A recent study reported enterococci that developed alcohol tolerance. We measured minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of isopropyl alcohol against 55 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium. We did not find an increase in MICs when comparing the periods before and after the use of alcohol for hand hygiene in a hospital, and we did not find a single isolate with a MIC higher than 11.5%. We consider alcohol to still be an effective measure for hand antisepsis.
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- 2019
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