title: Evaluation of an antimicrobial soap formula for virucidal efficacy in vitro against human immunodeficiency virus in a blood-virus mixture.
abstract: The virucidal efficacy of a health care personnel hand wash product containing 0.5% parachlorometaxylenol in a sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate formula was evaluated in in vitro tests with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in the presence of 50% whole human blood. The HTLV-IIIRF strain of HIV-1 was suspended in 50% medium-50% whole human blood and exposed to various dilutions of the hand wash product for 30 or 60 s. Following detoxification, residual infectivity was determined by a lytic cytopathogenic assay in MT2 cell cultures. No infectious HIV could be detected after a 30-s exposure to the hand wash product at dilutions of 1:5 and 1:10 and after a 60-s exposure at dilutions of 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, and 1:30. More than 99.9% of the virus was inactivated at these dilutions and exposure times.
authors.affiliation: Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama 35255-5305.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Lavelle
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Gubbe
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Neveaux
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bowden
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D003588:Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral / Q000187:drug effects; D006678:HIV / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D012915:Soaps / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014780:Viruses / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D012915:Soaps; D013501:Surface-Active Agents