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Handwashing Versus Gloving

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Patricia Lynch
Affiliation:
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington University of California, San Diego, California
M. Jeanne Cummings
Affiliation:
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington University of California, San Diego, California
Walter E. Stamm
Affiliation:
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington University of California, San Diego, California
Marguerite M. Jackson
Affiliation:
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington University of California, San Diego, California
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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