Does Bathing Newborns Remove Potentially Harmful Pathogens from the Skin?

Birth

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 161-165

  Medves, Jennifer M ^a   O'Brien, Beverley ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOAP;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BATH; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BATHS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; SKIN; SOAPS;

EID: 0035458492     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536x.2001.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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