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Reduction in Acute Respiratory Infection Among Military Trainees: Secondary Effects of a Hygiene-Based Cluster-Randomized Trial for Skin and Soft-Tissue Infection Prevention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2016

Eugene V. Millar ,
Carey D. Schlett ,
Natasha N. Law ,
Wei-Ju Chen ,
Michael J. D’Onofrio ,
Jason W. Bennett ,
David R. Tribble  and
Michael W. Ellis
Eugene V. Millar*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, Maryland
Carey D. Schlett*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, Maryland
Natasha N. Law
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, Maryland Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia
Wei-Ju Chen
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, Maryland
Michael J. D’Onofrio
Affiliation:
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Medical Division, Frederick, Maryland
Jason W. Bennett
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland
David R. Tribble
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland
Michael W. Ellis
Affiliation:
University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, Ohio.
*
Address correspondence to Eugene V. Millar, PhD, Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 1211, Rockville, MD 20852 (emillar@idcrp.org) or Carey D. Schlett, MPH, Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 1211, Rockville, MD 20852 (cschlett@idcrp.org).
Address correspondence to Eugene V. Millar, PhD, Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 1211, Rockville, MD 20852 (emillar@idcrp.org) or Carey D. Schlett, MPH, Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 1211, Rockville, MD 20852 (cschlett@idcrp.org).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 9 , September 2016 , pp. 1118 - 1120
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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