Quick-acting antiseptic

German scientists say they have found a fast-acting antiseptic that effectively kills bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, helping to prevent the spread of dangerous infections in the hospital.

MRSA bacteria are observed on bacterial culture plates consisting of jelly to feed bacteria.Photo: Reuters.

Researchers at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin say they have developed a quick-acting formula that kills pathogens on surgical instruments without eroding these devices.

Disinfection is the first step in preventing the spread of hospital infections. Effective cleaning of surgical instruments is an important vital step of disinfection to combat this disease.

The formula discovered by German scientists against the spread of pathogens. Some of these pathogens are likely to persist in common antibiotics such as mycobacteria (causing a type of tuberculosis) and enterovirus intestinal viruses (causing poliomyelitis).

The proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria known as viruses ( superbug ) in hospitals worldwide and poor hygiene status is believed to be the cause of the spread of infections. Every year, about 25,000 people in Europe and 19,000 people in the United States die from infections.

In previous studies, the German team found that alkaline alkaline detergents can kill prions (viral proteins similar to those without genetic factors, acid nucleid nuclei).

Prions cause a disease that makes proteins difficult to remove because they can become surface immobile by using some common antiseptic. Prion causes many dangerous diseases in animals and humans, causing central nervous system degeneration and dementia such as mad cow disease, human kuru disease.

In the new study, the Beekers and Martin Mielke of Robert Koch Institute hygiene department mixed alkaline alkali with an arbitrary amount of alcohol and tested the mixture's ability to remove fungi, bacteria, viruses and prions . Surgical instruments. They found that the mixture with an alcohol content of 20% was the most optimal.

Michael Beeks said the new antiseptic could have a tremendous impact on the hospital's safety process.

'Previous standard formulas for removing prions are based on corrosion principles. And the solution that we are developing is not only safer, more friendly with materials but also very easy to prepare. It is cheap and highly effective for many types of infections'.

A Dutch study published last week found that the MRSA virus ( methicillin- resistant staphylococcus ) can cause non-contagious blood poisoning. They say it spreads through health systems when patients are transferred back and forth between different hospitals.