Pitfalls in efficacy testing - How important is the validation of neutralization of chlorhexidine digluconate?

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Reichel, Mirja ^a,b   Heisig, Peter ^b   Kampf, Günter ^a,c  

^a Bode Chemie GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; PROPANOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTISEPSIS; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM JEIKEIUM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NONHUMAN; SERODIAGNOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STORAGE; SUSPENSION; VALIDATION PROCESS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; SKIN;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLORHEXIDINE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOLOGY; SKIN; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 58149391246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-7-20     Document Type: Article

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