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Development of Nursing Home Infection Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Philip W. Smith
Philip W. Smith*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
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Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 985400 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5400
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , May 1999 , pp. 303 - 305
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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