Efficacy of Soap and Water and Alcohol‐Based Hand‐Rub Preparations against Live H1N1 Influenza Virus on the Hands of Human Volunteers
Clinical Infectious Diseases2008Vol. 48(3), pp. 285–291
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M. Lindsay Grayson, Sharmila Melvani, Julian Druce, Ian Barr, Susan A. Ballard, Paul D. R. Johnson, Tasoula Mastorakos, Christopher Birch
Abstract
HH with SW or alcohol-based hand rub is highly effective in reducing influenza A virus on human hands, although SW is the most effective intervention. Appropriate HH may be an important public health initiative to reduce pandemic and avian influenza transmission.
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