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Failure of a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point–Based Legionnaires’ Disease Prevention Program: 2 Definite Nosocomial Cases Tell the Story

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Brian G. Shelton
Brian G. Shelton*
Affiliation:
PathCon Laboratories, Norcross, Georgia
*
MPH, PathCon Laboratories, 270 Scientific Drive, Suite 3, Norcross, GA 30092 (bshelton@pathcon.com).
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Letter to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 10 , October 2014 , pp. 1310 - 1311
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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