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The Protective System: A European Model for Infection Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2016

W. Weuffen
Affiliation:
Division of General and Community Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, German Democratic Republic, Departments of Pathology and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
A. Kramer
Affiliation:
Division of General and Community Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, German Democratic Republic, Departments of Pathology and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
D. Groschel
Affiliation:
Division of General and Community Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, German Democratic Republic, Departments of Pathology and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia

Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1980

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