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Defect Rates in Touchless Versus Mechanical Hand Hygiene Dispensers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2018

Jan A. Roth ,
Bettina Batzer ,
Balthasar L. Hug  and
Andreas F. Widmer
Jan A. Roth
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Bettina Batzer
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Balthasar L. Hug
Affiliation:
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Andreas F. Widmer*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
*
Address correspondence to Prof Dr Andreas F. Widmer, MS, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland (andreas.widmer@usb.ch).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , March 2018 , pp. 359 - 360
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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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