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Quantitative Efficacy of Alcohol-Based Handrub against Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci on the Hands of Human Volunteers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M. L. Grayson ,
S. A. Ballard ,
W. Gao ,
S. Khumra ,
P. Ward ,
P. D. R. Johnson  and
E. A. Grabsch
M. L. Grayson*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
S. A. Ballard
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
W. Gao
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
S. Khumra
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
P. Ward
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
P. D. R. Johnson
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
E. A. Grabsch
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
*
Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Austin Hospital, Studley Road, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia3084 (lindsay.grayson@austin.org.au)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 98 - 100
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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