Efficacy of Soap and Water and Alcohol‐Based Hand‐Rub Preparations against Live H1N1 Influenza Virus on the Hands of Human Volunteers
Author(s) -
M. Lindsay Grayson,
Sharmila Melvani,
Julian Druce,
Ian Barr,
Susan A. Ballard,
Paul D. R. Johnson,
Tasoula Mastorakos,
Christopher Birch
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/595845
Subject(s) - medicine , hygiene , virus , chlorhexidine , microbiology and biotechnology , hand sanitizer , influenza a virus , pandemic , infectious dose , polymerase chain reaction , virology , covid-19 , biology , pathology , dentistry , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biochemistry , gene
Although pandemic and avian influenza are known to be transmitted via human hands, there are minimal data regarding the effectiveness of routine hand hygiene (HH) protocols against pandemic and avian influenza.
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