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Healthcare Workers' Hands and Clostridium difficile Spores: Making Progress?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Aurora Pop-Vicas  and
Rosa Baier
Aurora Pop-Vicas*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Rosa Baier
Affiliation:
Healthcentric Advisors, Providence, Rhode Island; and Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, 111 Brewster Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 (aurora_pop-vicas@brown.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 16 - 17
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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