Chlorhexidine acetate description

Chlorhexidine acetate is a white to anemic chrism microcrystalline powder, odourless or about odourless. It is acrid (at 20ºC) in 55 locations of baptize and 15 locations of alcohol. Composition of Dressing : Chlorhexidine Acetate BP 0.5% in white bendable paraffin BP. The activity of chlorhexidine acetate is both bacteriostatic and bactericidal. Chlorhexidine Acetate has been apparent to be active, in vitro, adjoin a advanced ambit of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacilli at concentrations of 10-50 µg/ml. These include: B. subtilis Sal. pullorum Strep. lactis V. choleroe Strep. pyogenes (4 strains) Strep. faecalis Coryn. diphtheriae Sal. dublin Strep. pneumoniae Sal. typhimurium Staph. aureus (20 strains) A. aerogenes Pr. vulgaris E. coli P. aeruginosa (10 strains) Chlorhexidine has been begin to be abortive adjoin calefaction aggressive spores and acid-fast bacilli.