Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to hand-wash alcohols
S. J. Pidot, W. Gao, A. H. Buultjens, I. R. Monk, R. Guerillot, G. P. Carter, J. Y. H. Lee, M. M. C. Lam, S. A. Ballard, M. L. Grayson, A. A. Mahony, E. A. Grabsch, D. Kotsanas, T. Korman, G. W. Coombs, , T. P. Stinear
The paper shows hospital Enterococcus faecium isolates from 2010 onward are 10-fold more tolerant to alcohol-based disinfectants than older isolates, leading to increased gastrointestinal colonization in mice.
bioRxiv · May 16, 2016Microbiology