The 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic and hand hygiene practices in a hospital in the south of Brazil

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1313-1315

  Dos Santos, Rodrigo Pires ^a   Konkewicz, Loriane Rita ^a   Nagel, Fabiano ^a   Lisboa, Thiago ^a   Jacoby, Thalita ^a   Gastal, Sandra Ludwig ^a   Kuplich, Nádia Mora ^a   Sander, Guilherme ^a   Pires, Márcia ^a   Lovatto, Carem Gorniak ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANTISEPSIS; BRAZIL; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; HYGIENE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; ETHANOL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649950653     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657582     Document Type: Letter

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