{"id":1265,"date":"2009-01-24T12:47:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2009-01-24T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T17:47:56","slug":"wash-your-hands-jeffrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1265","title":{"rendered":"Wash Your Hands, Jeffrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/01\/handwashing.html\">Graphic Encouragement to Wash Your Hands<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/content\/vol360\/issue3\/images\/large\/12f1.jpeg' width=\"648\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each batch of agar contained a little bit of cefoxitin, an antibiotic that should prevent any ordinary bacteria from growing on the plates.<\/p>\n<p>After a little bit of incubation, the first plate (left) was covered in bright red colonies. It provided damming evidence that the infection can easily be spread by hand.<\/p>\n<p>The second plate (right) was completely free of bacteria. It showed that disaster can be averted very easily. By taking just a minute to lather up, anyone who works with patients can fight the spread of antibiotic-resistant bugs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/360\/3\/e3\">NEJM abstract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic Encouragement to Wash Your Hands Each batch of agar contained a little bit of cefoxitin, an antibiotic that should prevent any ordinary bacteria from growing on the plates. After a little bit of incubation, the first plate (left) was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}