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Compliance With Application Time for Surgical Hand Disinfection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Günter Kampf  and
Andreas F. Widmer
Günter Kampf*
Affiliation:
Department of Scientific Affairs, Bode Chemie GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, and the, Institut für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Andreas F. Widmer
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University of Basel Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland
*
Department of Scientific Affairs, Bode Chemie GmbH & Co. KG, Melanchthonstrasse 27, 22525 Hamburg, Germany, (guenter.kampf@bode-chemie.de)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 9 , September 2006 , pp. 996 - 998
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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