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The Stethoscope As a Potential Source of Transmission of Bacteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Itzhak Brook
Itzhak Brook*
Affiliation:
Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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Letter to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 9 , September 1997 , pp. 608
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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