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Alcohol-Based Hand Hygiene and Nosocomial Infection Rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Matthias Maiwald
Matthias Maiwald*
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Flinders Universityand Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia
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Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Flinders Universityand Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide (Bedford Park) SA 5042, Australia (matthias.maiwald@flinders.edu.au)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , June 2008 , pp. 579 - 580
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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