Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols

• DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aar6115
• Publication Date: 2018-08-01T18:06:28Z
• Authors: Sacha J. Pidot; Wei Gao; Andrew H. Buultjens; Ian R. Monk; Romain Guerillot; Glen P. Carter; Jean Y. H. Lee; Margaret M. C. Lam; M. Lindsay Grayson; Susan A. Ballard; Andrew A. Mahony; Elizabeth A. Grabsch; Despina Kotsanas; Tony M. Korman; Geoffrey W. Coombs; J. Owen Robinson; Anders Gonçalves ...; Torsten Seemann; Benjamin P. Howden; Paul D. R. Johnson; Timothy P. Stinear
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; Cross Infection; Mice, Inbred BALB C; 0303 health sciences; Time Factors; Enterococcus faecium; Reproducibility of Results; Adaptation, Physiological; 3. Good health; 2-Propanol; 03 medical and health sciences; Alcohols; Animals; Humans; Female; Hand Disinfection

The multidrug-resistant bacterium Enterococcus faecium has become increasingly tolerant to the alcohols in hospital disinfectants.