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Training of Personnel for Infection Control in Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bernhard M. Thimm
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Since the epochal observations of Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna in 1847 that the hospital personnel are one of the major carriers and transmitters of hospital-acquired infections, and that relatively simple techniques and behavioral standards can prevent it, European physicians and nurses have fluctuated in the degree of importance they have given to hospital infection control.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 8 , August 1984 , pp. 395 - 398
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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