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Descriptor English: Hand Sanitizers
Descriptor Spanish: Desinfectantes para las Manos
Descriptor desinfectantes para las manos
Entry term(s) antiséptico de manos
antisépticos para las manos
desinfectante de manos
desinfectante para las manos
Scope note: Preparaciones usadas como alternativas o suplementos al lavado de las manos con agua y jabón con el fin de destruir microorganismos y prevenir la transmisión de patógenos. El ingrediente activo puede ser el ETANOL, el 1-PROPANOL o la POVIDONA YODADA, en gel, espuma o solución líquida.
Descriptor Portuguese: Higienizadores de Mão
Descriptor French: Désinfectants pour les mains
Entry term(s): Antiseptic, Hand
Disinfectant, Hand
Hand Antiseptic
Hand Antiseptics
Hand Disinfectant
Hand Disinfectants
Hand Sanitizer
Sanitizer, Hand
Tree number(s): D27.505.954.122.187.500
D27.505.954.122.425.650
D27.720.274.650
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D064548
Scope note: Preparations used as alternatives or supplements to hand washing with soap and water to destroy microorganisms and prevent transmission of pathogens. The active ingredient may be ETHANOL; 1-PROPANOL; or POVIDONE-IODINE in a gel, foam, or liquid solution.
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Public MeSH Note: 2014
History Note: 2014
Related: Hand Disinfection MeSH
DeCS ID: 55345
Unique ID: D064548
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Date Established: 2014/01/01
Date of Entry: 2013/07/08
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Hand Sanitizers - Preferred
Concept UI M0582339
Scope note Preparations used as alternatives or supplements to hand washing with soap and water to destroy microorganisms and prevent transmission of pathogens. The active ingredient may be ETHANOL; 1-PROPANOL; or POVIDONE-IODINE in a gel, foam, or liquid solution.
Preferred term Hand Sanitizers
Entry term(s) Antiseptic, Hand
Disinfectant, Hand
Hand Antiseptic
Hand Antiseptics
Hand Disinfectant
Hand Disinfectants
Hand Sanitizer
Sanitizer, Hand



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