Danger: Disinfectants and Antibiotic Resistance

A new study has provided more evidence that using common disinfectants could promote the growth of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Antibiotic resistance is considered a major health issue. Overuse of antibiotics is known to give rise to antibiotic resistance, but disinfectants could produce the same effect, according to research by the National University of Ireland, published in the January 2010 issue of the journal "Microbiology."

Researchers grew a bacteria associated with hospital-acquired infections in the presence of a common disinfectant and found that the bacteria became 12 times less susceptible to the disinfectant.

But they also found that the same bacteria became 256 times more resistant to a widely used antibiotic -- ciprofloxacin -- even though the bacteria had never been exposed to it. Read the entire article.

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