“…Guanidine-based antimicrobials were thus believed to have low toxicity to humans (Ikeda et al, 1983(Ikeda et al, , 1984. However, recent accounts have reported PHMB penetrating mammalian cells and interacting with chromosomes, raising concerns about health hazards from guanidine-based antimicrobials (Allen et al, 2004(Allen et al, , 2006Chindera et al, 2016;Firdessa et al, 2015).…”