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  1. Department of Intensive Care and Burn Center, Service of Hospital Preventive Medicine, University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Philippe Eggimann & Giorgio Zanetti

  2. Critical Care Medicine, CH Universitaire Vaudois, Bugnon 46, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Philippe Eggimann

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Eggimann, P., Zanetti, G. On the way towards eradication of catheter-related infections!. Intensive Care Med 34, 988–990 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-008-1047-2

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