Influence of rings on the efficacy of hand sanitization and residual bacterial contamination

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 351-353

  Wongworawat, Montri D ^a   Jones, Sidney G ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOVE; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; JEWELRY; SANITATION;

ALCOHOLS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISINFECTION; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FINGERS; HAND; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; POVIDONE-IODINE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947588074     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510790     Document Type: Article

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