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Efficacy of Chemical Sterilants/Disinfectants Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Inge Gurevich
Inge Gurevich*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Section, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York
*
Coordinator, Infection Control Section, Winthrop-University Hospital, 259 First St., Mineola, NY 11501
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , May 1993 , pp. 276 - 278
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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