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Antibacterial Soaps: Chlorhexidine and Skin Infections

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The 15 years that separate the publication of Skin Bacteria and Their Role in Infection and the emergence of this volume have been marked by significant contributions to our understanding of bacterial skin infections and their prevention. Most of this new knowledge was contributed by the authors whose writings appear elsewhere in this book.

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Taplin, D. (1981). Antibacterial Soaps: Chlorhexidine and Skin Infections. In: Maibach, H.I., Aly, R. (eds) Skin Microbiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5868-1_15

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