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Guidelines for Hospital Environmental Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bryan P. Simmons ,
Thomas M. Hooton  and
George F. Mallison
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 03/04 1981 , pp. 131 - 148
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1981

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References

General Bibliography

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Further Reading

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