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Promotion of Hand Hygiene: Magic, Hype, or Scientific Challenge?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Didier Pittet
Didier Pittet*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
*
Infection Control Program, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Geneva Hospitals, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , March 2002 , pp. 118 - 119
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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