Efficacy of ethanol-based hand foams using clinically relevant amounts: A cross-over controlled study among healthy volunteers

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kampf, Günter ^a,b   Marschall, Sigunde ^a   Eggerstedt, Sven ^a   Ostermeyer, Christiane ^a  

^a Bode Chemie GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROPANOL; WATER; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOAM; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; TIME; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DISINFECTANTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; HANDWASHING; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952627321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-78     Document Type: Article

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