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

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Sandip Kumar Ray (Συγγραφέας), Ritvik Amarchand (Συγγραφέας), Jayanthi Srikanth (Συγγραφέας), Kunal Kanti Majumdar (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Έκδοση: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Θέματα: 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...