Importance of hand germ contamination in health-care workers as possible carriers of nosocomial infections

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 149-152

  Nogueras, Mónica ^a   Marinsalta, Nicolás ^a   Roussell, Mauricio ^a   Notario, Rodolfo ^a  

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Author keywords

Colonization; Hand washing; Hospital infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAND; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; HAND; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 0035345792     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652001000300006     Document Type: Article

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