Surgical hand disinfection with alcohols at various concentrations: Parallel experiments using the new proposed European standards method

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 778-781

  Rotter, Manfred L ^a   Simpson, Rosemary A ^b   Koller, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HealthCare Science Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; PROPANOL; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

1-PROPANOL; 2-PROPANOL; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; AUSTRIA; DISINFECTANTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; LONDON; MALE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032176466     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141424     Document Type: Article

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