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Containment Precautions in Hospitals for Cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John E. Greenlee
John E. Greenlee*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , June 1982 , pp. 222 - 223
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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