Clean Hospitals Day 2024: the technical domains of healthcare environmental hygiene

Alexandra Peters^{1

2}, Pierre Parneix³, Didier Pittet^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Clean Hospitals Association, Geneva, Switzerland.
² University of Geneva Institute of Global Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Nouvelle Aquitaine Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Centre, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France.
⁴ Clean Hospitals Association, Geneva, Switzerland. didier.pittet@hcuge.ch.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland. didier.pittet@hcuge.ch.

Editorial

Alexandra Peters et al. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2024.

. 2024 Oct 15;13(1):124.

doi: 10.1186/s13756-024-01479-1.

Alexandra Peters^{1

2}, Pierre Parneix³, Didier Pittet^{4

5}

¹ Clean Hospitals Association, Geneva, Switzerland.
² University of Geneva Institute of Global Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Nouvelle Aquitaine Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Centre, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France.
⁴ Clean Hospitals Association, Geneva, Switzerland. didier.pittet@hcuge.ch.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland. didier.pittet@hcuge.ch.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

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