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GMS Hygiene and Infection Control

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Krankenhaus-Hygiene (DGKH)

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Letter To The Editor

Letter to the editor regarding the paper “S2k-Guideline hand antisepsis and hand hygiene”

Maren Eggers 1
Katrin Steinhauer 2
 Florin H.H. Brill 3


1 Labor Prof. Dr. G. Enders MVZ GbR, Stuttgart, Germany
2 bactologicum GmbH, Itzehoe, Germany
3 Dr. Brill + Partner GmbH Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Hamburg, Germany



Letter to the editor

Dear editor,

The authors noticed a sensitive mistake in the paper S2k-Guideline hand antisepsis and hand hygiene in chapter 5, recommendation 28 [1]. The claims used for activity against viruses are misspelled and may lead to misleading interpretations of the claims. This is likely due to a translation failure from German to English. Consequently, we would like to give the correct claims in Table 1 [Tab. 1].

Table 1: Activity claims for disinfectants and antiseptics against viruses in the human medicine area

Notes

Competing interests

The author declares that he has no competing interests.

Funding

None.

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References

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