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Correlation of the air–surface nexus of bacterial burden during routine patient care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2020

Werner E. Bischoff Open the ORCID record for Werner E. Bischoff [Opens in a new window]  and
Gregory Russell
Werner E. Bischoff*
Affiliation:
Internal Medicine, Section on Infectious Diseases, and Infection Prevention and Health System Epidemiology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Gregory Russell
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Author for correspondence: Werner E. Bischoff, E-mail: wbischof@wakehealth.edu
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 41 , Issue 11 , November 2020 , pp. 1353 - 1354
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