Dirty hands: bacteria of faecal origin on commuters' hands

Dirty hands: bacteria of faecal origin on commuters' hands.

Although many studies have investigated bacteria on the hands of health-care workers and caregivers, few have looked at microbiological contamination on the hands of the general adult public. This study investigated faecal bacteria on the hands of commuters in five UK cities. Of the 404 people sampled 28% were found to have bacteria of faecal origin on their hands. A breakdown by city showed th...

The Lawyer's Dirty Hands

Isolation of bacteria of faecal origin on commuter’s hands: a preliminary study

Introduction Infectious intestinal diseases are amongst the biggest killers of children worldwide, latest estimates put deaths from diarrhoea at about 1.9 million per annum [1]. It has been suggested that hygiene promotion may be the most cost effective intervention for preventing infectious diseases in developing countries [2] and that handwashing in particular, if globally practiced, could sa...

Male commuters in north and south England: risk factors for the presence of faecal bacteria on hands

BACKGROUND A previous study found that the prevalence of contamination with bacteria of faecal-origin on the hands of men differed across UK cities, with a general trend of increased contamination in northern cities. The aim of this study was to (1) confirm the north-south trend (2) identify causes for the trend. METHODS Hand swabs from commuters (n = 308) at train stations in 4 cities were t...

Getting Students’ Hands Dirty with Clean-Slate Networking

Conventional networking courses treat today’s protocols and mechanisms as fixed artifacts, rather than as part of a continually evolving system. To prepare students to think critically about Internet architecture, we created a graduate networking course that combines “clean slate” networking research with hands-on experience in analyzing, building, and extending real networks. Our goal was to p...