Abstract
Ever since 1874 when Semmelweis in Vienna showed that chloride of lime counteracted the agent responsible for the transmission of puerperal fever, there has been an intermittent interest in the transmission of infectious disease by hands. Surprisingly, more than 130 years later, there re still doubts, in theory and practice, about the precise relevance of hand hygiene or disinfection in the transmission of hospital-acquired gram-negative bacilli.
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Casewell, M.W. (1981). The Role of Hands in Nosocomial Gram-negative Infection. In: Maibach, H.I., Aly, R. (eds) Skin Microbiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5868-1_22
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