… in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, pneumococcal infections that are resistant to penicillin or … of
new therapeutic agents and the apparent increase in biocide resistance paint a gloomy picture. …

… biocide use and clinical antibiotic resistance is difficult and should be viewed with caution. …
to treat bacterial or fungal infections in human beings and animals. Biocides encompass …

… resistance and, more recently, our understanding of the effect of biocides to induce a
mechanism(s) of resistance in … growth in biocidal products and subsequent infections or pseudo-…

… to infection prevention procedures need, or can be made, to prevent problems with biocide
adaptation and possible cross-resistance … that biocides are effective in infection prevention in …

… biocides. Different groups of bacteria vary in their intrinsic nonsusceptibility to biocides, with
bacterial spores being the most resistant, … from urinary tract infections, are nonsusceptible to …

… challenge of treating infections with an ever‐dwindling number of effective therapeutic
agents. While biocides play an important role in limiting the potential sources of infection and …

… In this paper, studies of the mechanisms of antibiotic and biocide resistance, and the possible
… antibiotic resistance continue to reduce our ability to treat infections, prevention of infection …

… resistance is one of the greatest dangers to public health of the 21st century, threatening the
treatment and prevention of infectious … of biocidal chemicals, is essential to control infectious …

… of inadequate infection control measures. These measures clearly include the use of effective
biocides and, therefore, biocide resistance has particular importance for these pathogens. …

… lack of awareness in the infection control community that some biocidal agents may have a
… for the spread of antibiotic and biocide resistance has been described already in 2001 [18]. In …