Effectiveness of Disinfectants Against Candida auris and Other Candida Species
- 10 August 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 38 (10), 1240-1243
- https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.162
Abstract
Contaminated surfaces are a suspected source for dissemination of the globally emerging pathogen Candida auris. In laboratory testing, sporicidal and improved hydrogen peroxide disinfectants were highly effective against C. auris, C. glabrata, and C. albicans. The widely used quaternary ammonium disinfectants exhibited relatively poor activity against all of the Candida species.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:1240–1243Keywords
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