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Antiseptics and Disinfectants— Safe and Effective?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William A. Rutala  and
Eugene C. Cole
William A. Rutala*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Eugene C. Cole
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, 547 Burnett-Womack Building, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 5 , May 1984 , pp. 215 - 218
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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