Antiseptic Resistance: How Purell Use Can Impact Microbes

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Can the overuse of Purell cause antiseptic resistant microbes similar to what the misuse/overuse of antibiotics has done?
 
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Probably. There are strains of bacteria that have developed resitance to pure bleach.