Increased hand washing reduces influenza virus surface contamination in Bangkok households, 2009–2010

Within a hand-washing clinical trial, we evaluated factors associated with fomite contamination in households with an influenza-infected child. Influenza virus RNA contamination was higher in households with low absolute humidity and in control households, suggesting that hand washing reduces surfac...

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Autores principales: Levy, Jens W, Suntarattiwong, Piyarat, Simmerman, James M, Jarman, Richard G, Johnson, Kara, Olsen, Sonja J, Chotpitayasunondh, Tawee
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4177792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24373290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12204
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author Levy, Jens W
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spelling pubmed-41777922014-10-29 Increased hand washing reduces influenza virus surface contamination in Bangkok households, 2009–2010 Levy, Jens W Suntarattiwong, Piyarat Simmerman, James M Jarman, Richard G Johnson, Kara Olsen, Sonja J Chotpitayasunondh, Tawee Influenza Other Respir Viruses Short Articles Within a hand-washing clinical trial, we evaluated factors associated with fomite contamination in households with an influenza-infected child. Influenza virus RNA contamination was higher in households with low absolute humidity and in control households, suggesting that hand washing reduces surface contamination. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-01 2013-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4177792/ /pubmed/24373290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12204 Text en © 2013 The Authors. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Increased hand washing reduces influenza virus surface contamination in Bangkok households, 2009–2010
title_sort increased hand washing reduces influenza virus surface contamination in bangkok households, 2009–2010
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4177792/
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