Modeling of human viruses on hands and risk of infection in an office workplace using micro-activity data

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 266-275

  Beamer, Paloma I ^a   Plotkin, Kevin R ^a   Gerba, Charles P ^a   Sifuentes, Laura Y ^a   Koenig, David W ^b   Reynolds, Kelly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b KIMBERLY CLARK CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

indirect pathogen transmission; infection risk; microactivity; office workers; viral infection; workplace intervention

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOMITE; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEVIVIRUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; WORKPLACE;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FOMITES; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; LEVIVIRUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRUSES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84924931916     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2014.974808     Document Type: Article

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