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Infection Control in Perspective: Infections Due to Medical Equipment and Devices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , August 1981 , pp. 305 - 306
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1981

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