Contamination of healthcare workers' hands with bacterial spores

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 521-525

  Sasahara, Teppei ^a   Ae, Ryusuke ^a   Watanabe, Michiyo ^a   Kimura, Yumiko ^a   Yonekawa, Chikara ^a   Hayashi, Shunji ^b   Morisawa, Yuji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol based hand rubbing; Bacillus; Bacterial spore; Clostridium; Hand hygiene; Handwashing

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SOAP; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYSICIAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALCOHOLS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; SOAPS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84969695782     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: 14377780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiac.2016.04.007     Document Type: Article

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