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Contamination of health care workers’ coats at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia: the nosocomial risk

BACKGROUND: Health care Associated Infections (HAIs) are a major public health problem in both developed and developing countries. They pose a severe impact in resource-poor settings, where the rate of infection is estimated to be relatively high. Therefore, this study was conducted to establish emp...

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Autores principales:	Mwamungule, Susan, Chimana, Henry Mwelwa, Malama, Sydney, Mainda, Geoffrey, Kwenda, Geoffrey, Muma, John Bwalya
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4572668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26380579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-015-0077-2

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