Yeast carriage on the hands of Medicine students;Portación de levaduras en manos de estudiantes de Medicina

Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 41-45

  Silva, Víctor ^a   Zepeda, Guillermo ^a   Rybak, María Eugenia ^a   Febré, Naldy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR   (Chile)

Author keywords

Candida parapsilosis; Exogenous transmission; Hand colonization; Hand washing; Yeasts identification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; ENGINEERING; FUNGUS COLONIZATION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HAND; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STUDENT; RHODOTORULA; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA; YEAST;

CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YEASTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; FUNGI; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA;

EID: 0242643424     PISSN: 11301406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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