Could hospital patients' hands constitute a missing link?
- 30 November 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 61 (3), 183-188
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2005.03.016
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