Evaluation of World Health Organization–Recommended Hand Hygiene Formulations

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Suchomel, Miranda ; Eggers, Maren ; Maier, Steffen ; Kramer, Axel ; Dancer, Stephanie J. ; Pittet, Didier
• Description:
  As a result of the coronavirus disease pandemic, commercial hand hygiene products have become scarce and World Health Organization (WHO) alcohol-based hand rub formulations containing ethanol or isopropanol are being produced for hospitals worldwide. Neither WHO formulation meets European Norm 12791, the basis for approval as a surgical hand preparation, nor satisfies European Norm 1500, the basis for approval as a hygienic hand rub. We evaluated the efficacy of modified formulations with alcohol concentrations in mass instead of volume percentage and glycerol concentrations of 0.5% instead of 1.45%. Both modified formulations met standard requirements for a 3-minute surgical hand preparation, the usual duration of surgical hand treatment in most hospitals in Europe. Contrary to the originally proposed WHO hand rub formulations, both modified formulations are appropriate for surgical hand preparation after 3 minutes when alcohol concentrations of 80% wt/wt ethanol or 75% wt/wt isopropanol along with reduced glycerol concentration (0.5%) are used.
• Subjects:
  Betacoronavirus Coronavirus Infections Covid-19 Ethanol Hand Hand Hygiene Hand Sanitizers Humans Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral Sars-Cov-2

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 26(9):2064-2068
• Pubmed ID:
  32459621
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7454073
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  World Health Organization ; World Health Organization
• Place as Subject:
  Europe
• Location:
  Europe
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a904725c0047b6d017231bb45b8d0129db5b3b81a95819c1018aa9b2bb3697af
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/93016/cdc_93016_DS1.pdf
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