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Infections in Long-Term-Care Facilities: Screen or Clean?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Chesley L. Richards Jr.
Chesley L. Richards Jr.*
Affiliation:
Atlanta/Birmingham VA Geriatrics Research Educational Clinical Center (GRECO and Atlanta VA Health Services Research and Development (HSRD), Atlanta, Georgia Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Atlanta VA Medical Center, GRECC (IIB) 1670 Clairmont Road, Atlanta, GA 30033Chesley.Richards@va.gov
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 26 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , pp. 800 - 801
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2005

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