Understanding Healthcare Workers Self-Reported Practices, Knowledge and Attitude about Hand Hygiene in a Medical Setting in Rural India

• Vishal Diwan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vishal Diwan, Charlotte Gustafsson, Senia Rosales Klintz

  * E-mail: vishaldiwan@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Public Health and Environment, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India, International Center for Health Research, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

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• Charlotte Gustafsson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vishal Diwan, Charlotte Gustafsson, Senia Rosales Klintz

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Senia Rosales Klintz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vishal Diwan, Charlotte Gustafsson, Senia Rosales Klintz

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Sudhir Chandra Joshi,

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

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• Rita Joshi,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

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• Megha Sharma,

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Pharmacology, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

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• Harshada Shah,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

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• Ashish Pathak,

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Pediatrics, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India, Department of Women and Children’s Health, International Maternal and Child Health, Unit, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Ashok J. Tamhankar ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance, Department of Environmental Medicine, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

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• Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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