In 2007, a company introduced a glass product they claimed had antibacterial properties by coating the glass with a thin layer of silver.

Germ kill is achieved using a " micro-biocidal " product i. e. a disinfectant or antibacterial product or waterless hand sanitizer, or by application of heat.

In the domestic environment, drug-resistant strains of organism may arise from seemingly safe activities such as the use of bleach, tooth-brushing and mouthwashing, the use of antibiotics, disinfectants and detergents, shampoos and soaps, particularly antibacterial soaps, hand-washing, surface sprays, application of deodorants, sunblocks and any cosmetic or health-care product, insecticides and dips.

Antibacterial soap is any cleaning product to which active antibacterial ingredients have been added.

These are generally only contained at preservative levels unless the product is marked antibacterial, antiseptic, or germicidal.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration published reports that question the use of antibacterial soap and hand sanitizers saying that it found no medical studies that showed a link between a specific consumer antibacterial product and a decline in infection rates.

" However, a more recent literature review performed by Dr. Levy ( Aiello et al., 2007 ) concluded that " The lack of an additional health benefit associated with the use of triclosan-containing consumer soaps over regular soap, coupled with laboratory data demonstrating a potential risk of selecting for drug resistance, warrants further evaluation by governmental regulators regarding antibacterial product claims and advertising.

An antibacterial is a compound or substance that kills or slows down the growth of bacteria.

To predict clinical outcome, the antimicrobial activity of an antibacterial is usually combined with its pharmacokinetic profile, and several pharmacological parameters are used as markers of drug efficacy.

The emergence of resistance of bacteria to antibacterial drugs is a common phenomenon.

Inappropriate antibacterial treatment, for example, is the prescription of antibacterials to treat viral infections such as the common cold.

" It is highly probable that the correct information about the sulphonamide did not reach the newspapers because, since the original sulphonamide antibacterial, Prontosil, had been a discovery by the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with the British discovery, penicillin.

Bay leaf is also an antifungal and antibacterial, and has also been used to treat rheumatism, amenorrhea, and colic.

During pregnancy, the cervix is blocked by a special antibacterial mucosal plug, which prevents infection, somewhat similar to its state during the infertile portion of the menstrual cycle.

It is claimed to have antibacterial and antiviral properties ( it is effective against herpes simplex ).

Fluoroquinolones are broad-spectrum antibiotics that play an important role in treatment of serious bacterial infections, especially hospital-acquired infections and others in which resistance to older antibacterial classes is suspected.

Silver is believed to have purifing effects ; a belief that likely arose from the observation that water kept in a silver pitcher took longer to go scummy ; in real-life, silver has been shown to have antibacterial proporties, making it quite useful in medicine.

The IVT diluent is composed of several salts, sugars and antibacterial agents and gassed with CO < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Vinegar is often used as a natural deodorant, mainly because of its antibacterial effect.

* February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, by Gerhard Domagk.

Methylchloroisothiazolinone ( 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one ) is a preservative with antibacterial and antifungal effects within the group of isothiazolinones.

Newborns are wet, covered in streaks of blood, and coated with a white substance known as vernix caseosa, which is hypothesised to act as an antibacterial barrier.

Sometimes benzoyl peroxide topical medication is combined with a salt of hydroxyquinoline, such as potassium hydroxyquinoline sulphate, which has antibacterial properties.

In most cases, 8-12 weeks of antibacterial therapy is required.

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have recently discovered that 3, 3 '- diindolylmethane in Brassica vegetables is a potent modulator of the innate immune response system with potent antiviral, antibacterial and anticancer activity ; however, it also is an antiandrogen.

The oil is used as an antibacterial and fungicide.

Latex is porous and should be cleaned thoroughly with an antibacterial soap and water and not shared with other people.

" An antibacterial is not necessarily anti-fungal or anti-viral unless this is stated on the label.

The term ' antibiosis ', meaning " against life ," was introduced by the French bacteriologist Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by these early antibacterial drugs.

After screening hundreds of dyes against various organisms, he discovered a medicinally useful drug, the synthetic antibacterial Salvarsan now called arsphenamine.

Purified penicillin displayed potent antibacterial activity against a wide range of bacteria and had low toxicity in humans.

The term " antibacterial " derives from Greek ἀντί ( anti ), " against " + βακτήριον ( baktērion ), diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēria ), " staff, cane ", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped, and the term " antibiotic " derives from anti + βιωτικός ( biōtikos ), " fil for life, lively ", which comes from βίωσις ( biōsis ), " way of life ", and that from βίος ( bios ), " life ".

However, commonly there are delays in regulatory and legislative actions to limit the use of antibacterials, attributable partly to resistance against such regulation by industries using or selling antibacterials, and to the time required for research to test causal links between antibacterial use and resistance.

Hyperforin has also displayed antibacterial properties against gram-positive bacteria, although dosage, safety and efficacy has not been studied.

Limonene common in citrus essential Oils, showed in vitro antibacterial activity against P. acnes including drug resistant strains.

Natural honey has also been shown to have some antibacterial properties that may be active against P. acnes.

Dental caries: The root bark of Morus alba ( Moraceae ) has been used as a traditional medicine in Asian countries and exhibits antibacterial activity against food poisoning micro-organisms.

Using activity against S. mutans in bioassay-guided fractionation of a methanol extract of dried root bark, and organic solvent fractions of this extract, the active antibacterial constituent was identified as kuwanon G. The compound displayed an MIC of 8 μg ml – 1 against S. mutans, which was comparable to chlorhexidine and vancomycin ( 1 μg ml – 1 ).

Thymol has microbial activity because of its phenolic structure, and has shown antibacterial activity against bacterial strains including Aeromoans hydrophila and Staphylococcus aureus.

Peganum harmala has " antibacterial activity ," including antibacterial activity against drug-resistant bacteria.

The resistance problem demands that a renewed effort be made to seek antibacterial agents effective against pathogenic bacteria resistant to current antibiotics.

L. acidophilus LA-5 produces bacteriocin CH5 that is both antibacterial and inhibitory against certain yeasts and moulds and is effective against both Salmonella typhimurium and Campylobacter jejuni.

A study performed at the University of Arizona in 1991 demonstrated that Salvia apiana has potential antibacterial properties against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Candida brassicae.

A mixture of methyl and ethyl orsellinates have been identified from P. aphthosa that had antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and-negative bacteria.

O. sanctum extracts are antibacterial ( against E. coli, S. aureus and P. aeruginosa ).

Prontosil, the first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic ( with a relatively broad effect against Gram-positive cocci but not against enterobacteria ), was developed in the 1930s by a research team at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate in Germany.

Ornidazole is a 5-nitroimidazole derivative with antiprotozoal and antibacterial properties against anaerobic bacteria.