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Protective Ribs for Male Connectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Juan N. Walterspiel
Juan N. Walterspiel*
Affiliation:
University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 8 , August 1988 , pp. 342 - 343
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988 

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