{"id":17388,"date":"2022-08-28T06:29:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/?page_id=17388"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:28:46","slug":"journal-2021-vol-22-no-2-original-articles-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/journal-2021-vol-22-no-2-original-articles-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 2021 Vol.22 No.2 Original Articles 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acetic Acid Versus Chlorine Tablet Solution as Disinfectant of Non-Critical Environmental Surfaces<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Abegail Sales Basco, RN, M.D.<\/em><br \/>\nAbstract<br \/>\nObjectives:<\/strong> This study aims to determine the bactericidal activity of 4% acetic acid versus chlorine tablets against gram negative and gram-positive microorganisms based on percentage reduction of microorganisms in hospital surfaces and suggest that it may be an effective alternative disinfectant.<br \/>\n<strong>Methodology:<\/strong> This was an experimental study where microbiological sampling of hospital surfaces was used to determine bacterial growth. The study was conducted from November to December 2020 at National Children\u2019s Hospital, a 200 bed capacity tertiary government hospital catering to children 0 to less than 19 years old. Non-critical hospital surfaces such as beds, bed rails and bedside tables were swabbed before and after intervention cleaning with chlorine tablets or 4% acetic acid solution.<br \/>\n<strong>Result:<\/strong> Pre-swabbing, hospital surfaces showed the presence of Bacillus sp., Klebsiella pneumoniae and Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus (CONS). Post-application of 4% acetic acid solution resulted to 100% reduction of Bacillus sp., 70.8% reduction of CONS, and 19.5% reduction of Klebsiella pneumoniae while post-application of chlorine tablet solution showed 100% reduction of Klebsiella pneumoniae and CONS and 95.2% reduction of Bacillus species.<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusion:<\/strong> The use of 4% acetic acid solution significantly reduced more gram-positive than gram-negative organisms and is a highly effective disinfectant against Bacillus sp. but is not effective against gram-negative organisms as it does not fulfil the criteria of at least 90 percent reduction in bacterial growth. Chlorine tablet solution is a more effective disinfectant against gram-negative organisms than gram-positive organisms. Acetic acid 4% solution is not an effective alternative disinfectant to chlorine tablet solution, the currently used hospital disinfectant, but maybe used as an adjunct for better reduction of hospital environmental pathogens.<br \/>\n<strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Acetic Acid, Chlorine Tablet, Disinfectant, Healthcare Associated Infection, Bacteria<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20212202012\"><strong>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20212202012<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/012_vol-22-no-2_BASCO_ACETIC-ACID.pdf\" target=\"_\" rel=\"noopener\">View Full Article in PDF format<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acetic Acid Versus Chlorine Tablet Solution as Disinfectant of Non-Critical Environmental Surfaces Abegail Sales Basco, RN, M.D. Abstract Objectives: This study aims to determine the bactericidal activity of 4% acetic acid versus chlorine tablets against gram negative and gram-positive microorganisms based on percentage reduction of microorganisms in hospital surfaces and suggest that it may be  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17388","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17388"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20005,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17388\/revisions\/20005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}