| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3371914 | Journal of Hospital Infection | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
SummaryThree ethanol-based sanitizers were compared with three antimicrobial liquid soaps for their efficacy to inactivate polio-, adeno-, vaccinia- and bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) as well as feline calicivirus (FCV) and murine norovirus (MNV) as surrogates for human norovirus in a suspension test. Additionally, sanitizers and soaps were examined against MNV in a modified fingerpad method. All sanitizers sufficiently inactivated the test viruses in the suspension test whereas two soaps were active only against vaccinia virus and BVDV. In the modified fingerpad test a povidone-iodine-containing soap was superior to the sanitizers whereas the other two soaps showed no activity.
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Authors
J. Steinmann, D. Paulmann, B. Becker, B. Bischoff, E. Steinmann, J. Steinmann,