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Environmental Interventions to Control Nosocomial Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William A. Rutala  and
David J. Weber
William A. Rutala*
Affiliation:
Division of Infection Diseases, University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Division of Infection Diseases, University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, 547 Burnett-Womack CB# 7030, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 8 , August 1995 , pp. 442 - 443
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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