Effectiveness of hand-cleansing agents for removing Acinetobacter baumannii strain from contaminated hands

Background: The effectiveness of hand-cleansing agents (plain liquid soap, 70% ethyl alcohol, 10% povidone-iodine, and 4% chlorhexidine gluconate) for removing a hospital strain of Acinetobacter baumannii from artificially contaminated hands of 5 volunteers was studied. Methods: The experiments were...

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Veröffentlicht in:American journal of infection control 1999-08, Vol.27 (4), p.327-331
Hauptverfasser: Cardoso, Celso Luíz, Pereira a, Heloise Henriques, Zequim b, Juliana Campos, Guilhermetti a, Márcio
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Zusammenfassung:Background: The effectiveness of hand-cleansing agents (plain liquid soap, 70% ethyl alcohol, 10% povidone-iodine, and 4% chlorhexidine gluconate) for removing a hospital strain of Acinetobacter baumannii from artificially contaminated hands of 5 volunteers was studied. Methods: The experiments were performed by using a Latin square statistical design, with two 5 × 4 randomized blocks, and the results were estimated by ANOVA. In the first and second blocks, the fingertips of the volunteers were contaminated with approximately 10 3 colony-forming units (light contamination hand) and 10 6 colony-forming units (heavy contamination hand), respectively. Results: In the first block, all products tested were effective, almost completely removing the microbial population of A baumannii artificially applied to the hands. In the second block, the use of hand-cleansing agents resulted in 91.36% (4% chlorhexidine), 92.33% (liquid soap), 98.49% (10% povidone-iodine), and 98.93% (70% ethyl alcohol) reduction in counts of A baumannii cells applied to the fingertips. The ethyl alcohol and povidone-iodine had significantly higher removal rates than plain soap and chlorhexidine ( P < .05). Conclusions: These results suggest that 70% ethyl alcohol and 10% povidone-iodine may be the most effective hand-cleansing agents for removing A baumannii strain from heavily contaminated hands (10 6 colony-forming units/fingertip). (AJIC Am J Infect Control 1999;27:327-31)
ISSN:0196-6553
1527-3296
DOI:10.1016/S0196-6553(99)70052-0