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What is the Optimum Location of Alcohol-Based Hand Cleanser?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. E. A. Somner ,
K. M. Scott  and
A. P. Gibb
J. E. A. Somner*
Affiliation:
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Tennent Eye Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom
K. M. Scott
Affiliation:
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A. P. Gibb
Affiliation:
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
*
The Tennent Eye Institute, Gartnavel General Hospital, 1053 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G120YN (john@somner.org.uk)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 108 - 109
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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