A study on prevalence of bacteria in the hands of children and their perception on hand washing in two schools of Bangalore and Kolkata

Background: Contaminated hands play a major role in fecal-oral transmission of diseases. In 1847, Dr Semmelweis Ignac pointed to the link between infection and unclean hands, and demonstrated that washing hands could reduce transmission of puerperal fever (child birth fever), a dreaded disease with...

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Main Authors: Sandip Kumar Ray (Author), Ritvik Amarchand (Author), Jayanthi Srikanth (Author), Kunal Kanti Majumdar (Author)
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Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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