MicrobiologybioRxiv
Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to hand-wash alcohols
S. J. Pidot, W. Gao, A. H. Buultjens…·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.
DOI 10.1126/scitranslmed.aar6115