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Air Quality of a Hospital after Closure for Black-Water Flood: An Occupational-Health Concern?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailand
Thana Khawcharoenporn
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailand
Linda M. Mundy
Affiliation:
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailand, 12120 ([email protected])
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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