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Infection Control in Africa South of the Sahara

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mercy J. Newman
Mercy J. Newman*
Affiliation:
University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana, South Africa
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , February 2001 , pp. 68 - 69
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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