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KMID : 0881720120270010030
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Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
2012 Volume.27 No. 1 p.30 ~ p.36
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Prevalence of Microbiological Hazard on Nursery School Children’s Hands and Effect of Hand Washing Education
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Kim Jung-Beom
Hur Eun-Seon
Kang Suk-Ho
Kim Dae-Hwan
Do Young-Sook
Park Po-Hyun
Park Yong-Bae
Yoon Mi-Hye
Lee Jong-Bok
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to evaluate the microbiological hazard on nursery school children’s hands and to investigate the reduction effect of hand washing education. A total of 59 nursery school children’s hands were tested. The average number of total aerobic bacteria was 3.72 ± 0.38 log CFU/hand. Five children’s hands(2 male and 3 female) were positive(14.3%) for the coliform bacteria. These results showed that hand washing education are required repetitively. Among the pathogenic bacteria tested in this study, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus cereus were detected in 9(25.7%) and 16(45.7%) out of 35 their hands, respectively. Twelve out of sixteen B. cereus isolates(70.0%) produced enterotoxin. The results indicate that the hand hygiene of nursery school children needs to be improved. Comparing before and after hand washing in educated and non-educated group, the reduction effect of total aerobic bacteria on their hands was 0.42 and 0.60 log CFU/hand, respectively. The educated group showed 0.18 log CFU/hand higher reduction effect than non-educated group but microorganism did not eliminate perfectly. From the results, using a hand sanitizer after washing with soap and the continuous hand washing education are required to control the contaminated bacteria on nursery school children’s hands.
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KEYWORD
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Nursery school children’s hands, Microbiological hazard, Hand washing education
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