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Microbiological contamination of young children’s hands in rural Bangladesh: Associations with child age and observed hand cleanliness as proxy
BACKGROUND: Hands are a route of transmission for fecal-oral pathogens. This analysis aimed to assess associations between hand E. coli contamination and child age and determine if observed hand cleanliness can serve as a proxy for E. coli contamination on young children’s hands. METHODS: Trained fi...
Autores principales: | Parvez, Sarker Masud, Azad, Rashidul, Pickering, Amy J., Kwong, Laura H., Arnold, Benjamin F., Rahman, Musarrat Jabeen, Rahman, Md. Zahidur, Alam, Mahfuja, Sen, Debashis, Islam, Sharmin, Rahman, Mahbubur, Colford, John M., Luby, Stephen P., Unicomb, Leanne, Ercumen, Ayse |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6736272/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31504064 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222355 |
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