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The Importance of Isopropyl Alcohol in Skin Preparation Solutions

Part of: BARRY FARR AWARD RECIPIENTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lin M. Riccio ,
Brian R. Swenson  and
Robert G. Sawyer
Lin M. Riccio*
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
Brian R. Swenson
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
Robert G. Sawyer
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
*
1215 Lee Street, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 (lmr7f@virginia.edu)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , April 2011 , pp. 405 - 406
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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