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The New 16-Towel Test Pack: Is It a Challenge to the Sterilizer?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nathan L. Belkin
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 9 , September 1995 , pp. 495 - 496
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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