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New ASTM Barrier Test Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Nathan L. Belkin
Nathan L. Belkin*
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Clearwater. Florida
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 10 , October 1993 , pp. 561 - 562
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993 

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