Clean Your Hands 5th May 2017: 'Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands'

Ermira Tartari^{1

2}, Daniela Pires^{1

3}, Didier Pittet¹

Affiliations

¹ Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety - Infection Control & Improving Practices, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
² Infection Control Unit, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte and Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Editorial

Ermira Tartari et al. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2017.

. 2017 May 5:6:39.

doi: 10.1186/s13756-017-0196-x. eCollection 2017.

Ermira Tartari^{1

2}, Daniela Pires^{1

3}, Didier Pittet¹

¹ Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety - Infection Control & Improving Practices, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
² Infection Control Unit, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte and Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

No abstract available

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