KEMAMPUAN DAYA HAMBAT BAHAN AKTIF BEBERAPA MEREK DAGANG HAND SANITIZER TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN Staphylococcus aureus

Maintaining hand hygiene is an effective strategy to reduces overall infectious disease and prevent the spread of the pathogens through the fecal-oral route, including the transmission of pathogens from hands to food and drinks. The disease can be caused by normal flora that potentially pathogenic bacterium such as Staphylococcus aureus. Washing hands with hand sanitizer is one of the ways for maintaining the hand hygiene. Hand sanitizer as an innovative antiseptic product at this time, becomes an alternative hand washing with soap and water. This study has been done to evaluate the inhibition ability of several trademarks hand sanitizer on the growth of Staphylococcus aureus. The research method used a completely randomized design in four kinds of hand sanitizer and three repetitions. Data processed manually and using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and followed by Post-Hoc test with Tukey HSD and also Independent T-Test. The results showed that the ingredients of hand sanitizer can reduce the growth of Staphylococcus aureus significantly. The differences on the percentage reduction of colonies in 30 seconds ranged between 57.65% - 72.45%, while the range in 1 minute was 67.88% - 82.65%. The analysis was also showed a real difference to the experiment, the combination of the experiment and the time of the experiment with significance value of p