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Lack of Evidence for Attributing Chlorhexidine as the Main Active Ingredient in Skin Antiseptics Preventing Surgical Site Infections

Part of: BARRY FARR AWARD RECIPIENTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Matthias Maiwald ,
Andreas F. Widmer  and
Manfred L. Rotter
Matthias Maiwald*
Affiliation:
. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
Andreas F. Widmer
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Basel Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland
Manfred L. Rotter
Affiliation:
Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 229899, Singapore (matthias.maiwald@kkh.com.sg)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , April 2011 , pp. 404 - 405
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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