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Should Test Methods for Disinfectants Use Vertebrate Viruses Dried on Carriers to Advance Virucidal Claims?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M. Khalid Ijaz  and
Joseph Rubino
M. Khalid Ijaz*
Affiliation:
Reckitt Benckiser, Center of Innovation, One Philips Parkway, Montvale, New Jersey
Joseph Rubino
Affiliation:
Reckitt Benckiser, Center of Innovation, One Philips Parkway, Montvale, New Jersey
*
Reckitt Benckiser, Inc., Center of Innovation, One Philips Parkway, Montvale, NJ 07646 (Khalid.Ijaz@ReckittBenckiser.com)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , February 2008 , pp. 192 - 194
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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