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Has the Time Come to Recommend the Use of Alcohol-Based Hand Rub to Hospitalized Patients?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Viktorija Tomic ,
Viktor Ursic  and
Katja Seme
Viktorija Tomic*
Affiliation:
University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, Golnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Viktor Ursic
Affiliation:
University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, Golnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Katja Seme
Affiliation:
Institut of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
*
University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, SI-4204 Golnik, Slovenia (viktorija.tomic@klinika–golnik.si)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 10 , October 2008 , pp. 987 - 989
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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