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Electronic-Eye Faucets—Curse or Blessing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Walter Zingg  and
Didier Pittet
Walter Zingg
Affiliation:
Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Center on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
Didier Pittet*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Center on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
*
Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals, 4 Rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland (didier.pittet@hcuge.ch)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , March 2012 , pp. 241 - 242
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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