A randomized trial of soap and water hand wash versus alcohol hand rub for removal of Clostridium difficile spores from hands of patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 204-206

  Kundrapu, Sirisha ^a   Sunkesula, Venkata ^a   Jury, Irina ^b   Deshpande, Abhishek ^a   Donskey, Curtis J ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SOAP; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIAL SPORE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HAND; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ETHANOL; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMANS; SOAPS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84892688084     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674859     Document Type: Note

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