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Activity of Sterillium® Comfort Gel against 16 Gram-negative 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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| Acinetobacter baumannii |
6.60 |
5.34* |
| Acinetobacter lwoffi |
6.86 |
5.34* |
| Bacteriodes fragilis |
6.72 |
6.58 |
| Burkholderia cepacia |
6.48 |
5.48 |
| Enterobacter aerogenes |
6.83 |
5.91 |
| Enterobacter cloacae |
6.45 |
6.75 |
| Escherichia coli |
6.64 |
6.72 |
| Haemophilus influenzae |
5.86 |
5.34 |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae |
6.53 |
6.62 |
| Klebsiella oxytoca |
6.73 |
6.62 |
| Proteus mirabilis |
6.78 |
6.68 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
6.56 |
6.73 |
| Salmonella enteritidis |
6.79 |
6.75 |
| Salmonella typhimurium |
6.72 |
6.68 |
| Serratia marcescens |
6.87 |
5.62 |
| Shigella sonnei |
6.28 |
6.41 |
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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; *a clinical isolate was obtained as Acinetobacter calcoaceticus var lwoffi. | ||
Kampf and Hollingsworth Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2008 7:2 doi:10.1186/1476-0711-7-2 |
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