Global infection prevention and control priorities 2018-22: a call for action

Affiliations

¹ World Health Organization, Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit, Department of Service Delivery and Safety, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Electronic address: allegranzib@who.int.
² World Health Organization, Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit, Department of Service Delivery and Safety, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
³ Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁴ Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Benedetta Allegranzi et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;5(12):e1178-e1180.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30427-8.

¹ World Health Organization, Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit, Department of Service Delivery and Safety, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Electronic address: allegranzib@who.int.
² World Health Organization, Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit, Department of Service Delivery and Safety, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
³ Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁴ Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

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