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Infection Control: Old Myths and New Realities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William Schaffner
William Schaffner*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, TN 37232
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , October 1980 , pp. 330 - 334
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1980

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