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The Costs of Hospital Infection Control in a Developing Country

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Claudio S. Pannuti*
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
*
Departmento de Doencas Infecciosas e Parafsitarias, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, CEP 01258, Brazil
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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