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The Problem of Environmental Legionella

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Washington C. Winn Jr.
Washington C. Winn Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, and, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , April 1985 , pp. 139 - 140
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985

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