ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THEM Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61K31/65 A61K31/185 A61K31/525 A61Q17/00 A61Q19/00 

FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to antimicrobial compositions and methods for using them, and aims at the preoperative skin processing and disinfection, wound care, and as a disinfectant for sterilisation of surgical instruments. An antimicrobial composition contains at least approximately 30 wt % or more of C₁-C₆ alcohol, approximately 1.5 wt % to 15 wt % of citric acid, approximately 0.01 wt % to 1 wt % of paraben, and approximately 0.01 wt % to 0.2 wt % of a redox compound. The antimicrobial composition has pH from approximately 3 to approximately 7. The other aspects present an applicator that comprises an absorbent material and an absorbed antimicrobial composition, or an adsorbent material and a handle comprising an amount of the antimicrobial composition.

EFFECT: using the group of inventions provides effective and fast elimination of microorganisms particularly found on the skin surface, thereby providing the antimicrobial effect stable for a long period of time after use.

33 cl, 12 dwg, 2 tbl, 6 ex