Handwashing and Ebola virus disease outbreaks: A randomized comparison of soap, hand sanitizer, and 0.05% chlorine solutions on the inactivation and removal of model organisms Phi6 and E. coli from hands and persistence in rinse water

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Wolfe, Marlene K ^a   Gallandat, Karin ^a   Daniels, Kyle ^a   Desmarais, Anne Marie ^a   Scheinman, Pamela ^b   Lantagne, Daniele ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; HAND SANITIZER; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; SOAP; TROCLOSENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BODY FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOADING TEST; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PROGRAM EFFICACY; PSEUDOMONAS PHAGE PHI6; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; ADOLESCENT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG EFFECTS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIOPHAGE PHI 6; CHLORINE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HAND SANITIZERS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; SOAPS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013763058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172734     Document Type: Article

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