World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global campaign-'Fight antibiotic resistance-it's in your hands'

E Tartari; M Abbas; D Pires; M E A de Kraker; D Pittet

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2017.04.021

World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global campaign-'Fight antibiotic resistance-it's in your hands'

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2017 Sep;23(9):596-598. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.04.021. Epub 2017 May 6.

Authors

E Tartari¹, M Abbas², D Pires³, M E A de Kraker², D Pittet⁴

Affiliations

¹ Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety-Infection Control & Improving Practices, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland; Infection Control Unit, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
² Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety-Infection Control & Improving Practices, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety-Infection Control & Improving Practices, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Infectious Diseases, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte and Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
⁴ Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety-Infection Control & Improving Practices, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: didier.pittet@hcuge.ch.

PMID: 28487167
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.04.021

No abstract available

Keywords: Antibiotic resistance; Antimicrobial resistance; Behavioural change; Global health; Hand hygiene; Health-care associated infection; Infection control; Infection prevention; Policy making; World Health Organization.

MeSH terms

Bacterial Infections / epidemiology*
Bacterial Infections / microbiology
Bacterial Infections / prevention & control*
Cross Infection / epidemiology*
Cross Infection / microbiology
Cross Infection / prevention & control*
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Global Health
Hand Hygiene / methods*
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
World Health Organization