Hand washing with soap reduces diarrhoea and spread of bacterial pathogens in a Bangladesh village

Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 85-89

  Shahid, Nigar S ^a   Greenough III, William B ^a   Samadi, Aziz R ^a   Huq, Mohammed I ^a   Rahman, Nurur ^a  

^a International Centre for Diarrlioeal Disease Research Bangladesh ^*  (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Disease transmission; Dysentery, bacillary; Hand washing; Interventions; Soap

Indexed keywords

SOAP;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BANGLADESH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FECES; HANDWASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOAPS;

EID: 0030157953     PISSN: 02538768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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