Open AccessA BRIEF REVIEW OF INDIRECT CONTACT TRANSMISSION AND A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF CORROBORATIVE LABORATORY RESEARCH
Author(s) -
James G. Cumming
Publication year - 1919
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.9.6.414
Subject(s) - environmental health , transmission (telecommunications) , medicine , psychology , computer science , telecommunications
Risk of infecting the hand through careless dishwashing, mess-kit washing being the method considered, has already been discussed by this author. Here he follows up field observation with laboratory tests. He oxonerates home dishwashing and states that it is not a major route of hand infection.