Daily chlorhexidine bathing and hospital-acquired infection [4]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 2330-

  Wolkewitz, Martin ^a   Harbarth, Stephan ^b   Beyersmann, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BATH; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CALCULATION; DISINFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTEREMIA; BATHS; CHLORHEXIDINE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84878888952     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1304820     Document Type: Letter

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