Increasing tolerance of hospital <i>Enterococcus faecium</i> to handwash alcohols

Sacha J. Pidot, Wei Gao, Andrew H. Buultjens, Ian R. Monk, Romain Guérillot, Glen P. Carter, Jean Lee, Margaret M. C. Lam, M. Lindsay Grayson, Susan A. Ballard,

Science Translational Medicine · 2018 · 223 citations · 53 references

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Abstract

The multidrug-resistant bacterium Enterococcus faecium has become increasingly tolerant to the alcohols in hospital disinfectants.

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