Bacterial hand contamination and transfer after use of contaminated bulk-soap-refillable dispensers

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2898-2904

  Zapka, Carrie A ^a   Campbell, Esther J ^b   Maxwell, Sheri L ^c   Gerba, Charles P ^c   Dolan, Michael J ^a   Arbogast, James W ^a   Macinga, David R ^a  

^a GOJO Industries Inc   (United States)

^b BioScience Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; FIELD STUDIES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; LIQUID SOAPS; PUBLIC RESTROOMS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; DISPENSERS; TEACHING; WASHING;

CONTAMINATION;

SOAP;

BACTERIUM; DETERGENT; HYGIENE; INFECTIVITY; PATHOGEN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SANITATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAND; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SCHOOL; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HAND; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; SCHOOLS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SOAPS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 79955639579     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02632-10     Document Type: Article

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