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Excerpt from CDC Recommendations on Hand Washing

When hands are visibly dirty or contaminated with pertinacious material or are visibly soiled with blood or other body fluids, wash hands with either a non-antimicrobial soap and water or an antimicrobial soap and water. If hands are not visibly soiled, use an alcohol-based hand rub for routinely decontaminating hands in all other clinical situations described in items. Alternatively, wash hands with an antimicrobial soap and water in all clinical situations described in items. Do not add soap to a partially empty soap dispenser. This practice of “topping off” dispensers can lead to bacterial contamination of soap. No recommendation can be made regarding the routine use of non-alcohol-based hand rubs for hand hygiene in health-care settings, unresolved issue.

 Antimicrobial Spectrum and Characteristics of Hand-Hygiene Antiseptic Agents*

Note: +++ = excellent; ++ = good, but does not include the entire bacterial spectrum; + = fair; — = no activity or not sufficient.

• Hexachlorophene is not included because it is no longer an accepted ingredient of hand disinfectants

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr5116.pdf

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