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human
Does hand sanitiser use make pathogens more hand sanitiser resistant, in the same way antibiotic use does?

While absolutely necessary at the moment, seeing hand sanitiser everywhere had got me thinking. We have really overused antibiotics, creating a new problem for ourselves with antibiotic resistant pathogens, is there a chance we are in the process of doing the same with hand sanitisers?
gpt
No. 
Hand sanitizer uses alcohol to damage the lipid membrane of microorganisms. This is a very simple mechanism. It would be very difficult for infectious agents to get around this. 

In contrast antibiotics usually interfere with bacterial metabolism in a more complex manner such as inhibiting a particular enzyme. There are ways bacteria can evolve to fight this. For example a mutation in an enzyme that prevents binding of the antibiotic , or increasing the clearance rate of the antibiotic.