A Study on Hand Contamination and Hand Washing Practices among Medical Students

Table 1

Bacterial load of hands of subjects before and after toilet use by gender.

	Hand	log10 mean CFU ± SD		𝑃 Value
		Before	After
Overall (𝑁 60)	Right	3.22±0.70	3.55±0.66	0.001
	Left	3.17±0.87	3.48±0.79	0.003
Males (𝑁 30)	Right	3.36±0.64	3.91±0.56	0.001
	Left	3.39±0.59	3.78±0.54	0.001
Female (𝑁 30)	Right	3.09±0.75	3.20±0.56	0.405
	Left	2.94±1.05	3.19±0.89	0.456