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The 2009 H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic and Hand Hygiene Practices in a Hospital in the South of Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Rodrigo Pires dos Santos ,
Loriane Rita Konkewicz ,
Fabiano Nagel ,
Thiago Lisboa ,
Thalita Jacoby ,
Sandra Ludwig Gastal ,
Nádia Mora Kuplich ,
Guilherme Sander ,
Márcia Pires  and
Carem Gorniak Lovatto
Rodrigo Pires dos Santos*
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Loriane Rita Konkewicz
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Fabiano Nagel
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Thiago Lisboa
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Thalita Jacoby
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Sandra Ludwig Gastal
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nádia Mora Kuplich
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Guilherme Sander
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Márcia Pires
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Carem Gorniak Lovatto
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
*
Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2350, CEP: 90035–903, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil, ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 12 , December 2010 , pp. 1313 - 1315
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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