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Activity of Sterillium® Comfort Gel against 11 Gram-positive ATCC strains and clinical isolates (15 s exposure time). |
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| Bacterial species |
Lowest RF (ATCC strain) |
Lowest RF (clinical isolate) |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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