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

• Автори: Sandip Kumar Ray (Автор), Ritvik Amarchand (Автор), Jayanthi Srikanth (Автор), Kunal Kanti Majumdar (Автор)
• Формат: Книга
• Опубліковано: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Предмети: article
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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...