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Effect of Chlorhexidine Probably Overestimated Because of Lack of Neutralization after Sampling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Günter Kampf
Günter Kampf*
Affiliation:
Scientific Affairs, Bode Chemie, Hamburg, and the Institut für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
*
Scientific Affairs, Bode Chemie, Melanchthonstrasse 27, 22525 Hamburg, Germany ([email protected])
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Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 8 , August 2009 , pp. 811 - 812
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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