Open AccessA study on prevalence of bacteria in the hands of children and their perception on hand washing in two schools of Bangalore and Kolkata
Author(s) -
Sandip Ray,
Ritvik Amarchand,
Jayanthi Srikanth,
Kunal Kanti Majumdar
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/0019-557x.92408
Subject(s) - hand washing , medicine , dirt , washing hands , transmission (telecommunications) , environmental health , hygiene , biology , ecology , pathology , electrical engineering , engineering
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 high mortality in those days.