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Preventing sepsis in healthcare – 200 years after the birth of Ignaz Semmelweis
- Didier Pittet1 , Benedetta Allegranzi2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland 2 Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit, Department of Service Delivery and Safety, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, SwitzerlandDidier PittetDidier.Pittet hcuge.ch
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Citation style for this article: Pittet Didier, Allegranzi Benedetta. Preventing sepsis in healthcare – 200 years after the birth of Ignaz Semmelweis. Euro Surveill. 2018;23(18):pii=18-00222. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.18.18-00222 Received: 27 Apr 2018; Accepted: 03 May 2018
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