Sanitizing environments by creating a balance of bacteria capable of making the survival of Sars-Cov-2 impossible: it is based on this mechanism, and overturns the way in which we have always thought of being able to sanitize surfaces, the innovative Pchs cleaning system that uses selected probiotics.
In fact, new laboratory studies show that it is 99.99% effective even against Sars-Cov-2, keeping the surfaces non-contaminable for 24 hours and without facilitating the life of resistant bacteria.
The results of a research begun almost 11 years ago and in publication in scientific journals, were previewed in a press conference.
"This is a disruptive innovation - underlined Walter Ricciardi, professor of hygiene and preventive medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - which can change the way in which infections are fought. Because fighting germs with other germs does not feed itself the proliferation of resistant bacteria, unlike chemical disinfectants, which have side effects of environmental impact ".
In fact, Covid-19 is intertwined with the emergence of antibiotic resistance.
The increased focus on hygiene induced by the pandemic is leading to an excessive use of antibacterials which sets the stage for increased antibiotic resistance.
Trying to exterminate the pathogens deceives, in fact, to solve the hygiene problem but in reality, the traditional chemical disinfectants, such as alcohol or sodium hypochlorite, lose their effectiveness after less than an hour and leave the way open to the most resistant bacteria.
The Probiotic Cleaning Hygien System (Pchs) is based on the use of probiotics that prevent the virus from proliferating for 24 hours, with a positive impact also on the cleaning costs because cleansing does not need to be done many times during the day.
In the laboratory we have seen, explained Elisabetta Caselli, of the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Ferrara, how "biological sanitation based on replacing bad microbes with good ones is more effective than trying to eliminate all microbes. It allows for the killing of microbes. pathogens about 80% more than a traditional sanitation system and no selections of resistant strains. Halving the risk of infections related to hospital care ". The results suggest that this system, conceived by the Italian company Copma, concluded Ricciardi, "could potentially be useful also in civil environments, such as means of transport, schools and public health services". To apply it, however, he concluded, "a regulatory clarification is needed with respect to the current guidelines, which allows the application of a scientific innovation available today ". (ANSA).
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