Table 3

Activity of Sterillium® Comfort Gel against 11 emerging bacterial pathogens (15 s exposure time).

Bacterial species
Lowest RF

Acinetobacter baumannii MDR
6.45
Clostridium difficile (vegetative cell form)
5.34
Enterococcus faecalis VRE
7.15
Enterococcus faecium VRE
6.70
Escherichia coli 0157:H7
6.48
Escherichia coli MDR
6.58
Klebsiella pneumoniae MDR
6.45
Pseudomonas aeruginosa MDR
7.22
Staphylococcus aureus VISA
6.38
Staphylococcus epidermidis VISE
6.70
Streptococcus pneumoniae PRSP
5.38

Experiments were performed 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