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Hand Antisepsis: Evaluation of a Sprayer System for Alcohol Distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Andreas Voss ,
Andreas Widmer  and
Didier Pittet
Andreas Voss
Affiliation:
University Medical Centre St. Radboud, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Andreas Widmer
Affiliation:
University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Didier Pittet
Affiliation:
University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 9 , September 2003 , pp. 637
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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