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Product Commentary: Waterless Agents for Decontaminating the Hands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sue Crow  and
Charles W. Stratton
Charles W. Stratton*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
Clinical Microbiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 87232
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , March 1986 , pp. 186 - 187
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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