Why doesn't hand hygiene work better?

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 96-97

  Sepkowitz, Kent A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXIDE;

BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; HAND INFECTION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYGIENE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84856185038     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70349-8     Document Type: Letter

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