Faecal contamination of water and fingertip-rinses as a method for evaluating the effect of low-cost water supply and sanitation activities on faeco-oral disease transmission. II. A hygiene intervention study in rural north-east Thailand

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 377-389

  Pinfold, J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; FECES; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYGIENE; SOCIOECONOMICS; THAILAND; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; FECES; FINGERS; FRESH WATER; HANDWASHING; HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RAIN; RURAL HEALTH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THAILAND; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0025223714     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800047968     Document Type: Article

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