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Chlorhexidine Is Not the Main Active Ingredient in Skin Antiseptics That Reduce Blood Culture Contamination Rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Matthias Maiwald*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
Andreas F. Widmer
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Basel Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland
Manfred L. Rotter
Affiliation:
Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 229899, Singapore ([email protected])
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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