ArticleAmerican journal of infection control2019
The impact of chlorhexidine gluconate on the skin microbiota of children and adults: A pilot study.
Article in American journal of infection control, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Long-Term Daily Chlorhexidine Foot Cleansing Reduces Staphylococcal Burden on the Feet of People with Prior Diabetic Foot Complications.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Establishing anmSphere · 2025Article
- Skin microbiota analysis in patients with anorexia nervosa and healthy-weight controls reveals microbial indicators of healthy weight and associations with the antimicrobial peptide psoriasin.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Cutaneous Microbiome Profiles Following Chlorhexidine Treatment in a 72-Hour Daily Follow-Up Paired Design: a Pilot Study.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Assessing the Potential for Unintended Microbial Consequences of Routine Chlorhexidine Bathing for Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infections.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Review
- Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Reduces the Incidence of Bloodstream Infections in Adults Undergoing Inpatient Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2021Article
- Murine model of colonization with fungal pathogen Candida auris to explore skin tropism, host risk factors and therapeutic strategies.Cell host & microbe · 2021Article
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Abstract
We examined the effect of chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing on the skin microbiota of adult and pediatric patients. We observed no differences in pediatric patients; however, multiple genera of bacteria were observed to be significantly less abundant in the adults bathing with CHG. Further research is needed to determine the long-term impact of CHG use on the skin microbiota.
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