Table 1

Activity of Sterillium® Comfort Gel against 11 Gram-positive ATCC strains and clinical isolates (15 s exposure time).

Bacterial species
Lowest RF (ATCC strain)
Lowest RF (clinical isolate)

Enterococcus faecalis
7.06
7.34
Enterococcus faecium
7.29
6.90
Listeria monocytogenes
6.34
6.23
Micrococcus luteus
5.48
5.38
Staphylococcus aureus including MRSA
6.29
6.58
Staphylococcus epidermidis
5.82
5.60
Staphylococcus haemolyticus
5.34
6.16
Staphylococcus hominis
5.38
5.41
Staphylococcus saprophyticus
6.60
5.41
Streptococcus pneumoniae
5.34
5.60
Streptococcus pyogenes
6.14
5.48

Experiments were done according to the US tentative final monograph; presentation of the lowest reduction factor (RF) of four replicate experiments for each test strain.

Kampf and Hollingsworth Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2008 7:2   doi:10.1186/1476-0711-7-2