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Assessment of a Novel Approach to Evaluate the Outcome of Endoscope Reprocessing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Andreas Tietz
Affiliation:
Division of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospitals Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Marc Dangel
Affiliation:
Division of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospitals Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Andreas F. Widmer
Affiliation:
Division of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospitals Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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