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Of Soap and Semmelweis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 9 , September 1986 , pp. 445 - 447
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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