Paper Details

Name: Amrutha Y, ShruthiK, Aravindanarayana V, Prarthana J
Country: India

Year: 2020
Volume: Volume-7 Issue-2 (July-December)
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4308454

Hand hygiene, particularly hand sanitizing, is essential in reducing infectious disease transmission.With respect to the realization that hand hygiene is a prerequisite for the prevention of diseases, the conventional method of washing hand with soap has became quite non popular. Instead it is the use of hand sanitizer, which has gradually become the method of choice due to its various advantages. In the present study, the invitro bacterial activity of two well known brands of hand sanitizers available in laboratory was conducted by agar susceptibility test, minimum inhibitory concentration test and in-vivo reduction of viable bacteria counts on hands of subject’smethod. Reference bacterial strains like Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus subtilis were treated with different concentrations of each sanitizers showed good result. Antibacterial activity of these sanitizers different from each other. Increased concentrations (25μl, 50 μl, 75 μl & 100μl) of avagard showed good results, where as lesser concentrations (0.5μl, 1μl 5μl, 10μl, 15μl, 20μl) haven’t showed the antibacterial activity. In the case of dettol all the concentration (from lower to higher) showed good results, The dettolis much stronger than avagard in the antibacterial activity having well established inhibition zones against both gram positive and gram negative bacteria.