title: The relationship between hand area and hand contamination.
abstract: Although the number of colony-forming units (CFUs) on the hands of health care workers (HCWs) is a critical measurement in research studies of hand contamination, few studies have investigated the correlation between hand area and CFU count. In the present study, we calculated the area and measured the numbers of CFU on the right hand of 197 HCWs. Our data indicate that close relationship between hand area and CFU count.
authors.affiliation: Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
authors.forename: Shuhua
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Den
authors.forename: Yinghong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jianrong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Qingxin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zha
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Hongfeng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Linhai
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000382:microbiology*; D006282:Health Personnel; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male