Bacterial population kinetics on hands during 2 consecutive surgical hand disinfection procedures

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 369-374

  Kampf, Günter ^a,b   Ostermeyer, Christiane ^a   Kohlmann, Thomas ^b  

^a Bode Chemie GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MECETRONIUM ETILSULFATE; PROPANOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL FLORA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; FRIEDMAN TEST; HAND; HUMAN; HYGIENE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

1-PROPANOL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIA; DISINFECTION; HAND; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; KINETICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 44449105686     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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