Published in
American Society for Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 10(87), 2021
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00210-21
Links
Tools
Long-Term Exposure to Octenidine in a Simulated Sink Trap Environment Results in Selection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Citrobacter , and Enterobacter Isolates with Mutations in Efflux Pump Regulators
Journal article published in 2021 by
Isobel Garratt,
Paz Aranega-Bou,
J. Mark Sutton,
Ginny Moore,
Matthew E. Wand 
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
Full text: Download
Data provided by 
Abstract
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of bacteria are a major clinical problem, and several reports have linked outbreaks of MDR bacteria with bacterial populations in hospital sinks. Biocides such as octenidine are used clinically in body washes and other products, such as wound dressings for infection control.