Healthcare workers' hands and clostridium difficile spores: Making progress?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-17

  Pop Vicas, Aurora ^a   Baier, Rosa ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Healthcentric Advisors   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAND INFECTION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATIENT CARE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HAND; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84890358281     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674397     Document Type: Note

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