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Certification for Infection Control Practitioners: The Time Is Now

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert J. Shannon
Robert J. Shannon*
Affiliation:
Veterans Administration Hospital, 150 S. Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02130
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Editorial
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 18 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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