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Hospital Infection Control – An International Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Karl A. Western
Affiliation:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Ronald K. St. John*
Affiliation:
Communicable Diseases, Division of Disease Prevention and Control, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C.
Lois Ann Shearer
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Section, California State Department of Health, Berkeley, California
*
Communicable Diseases, Division of Disease Prevention and Control, Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of the Americas, Washington, D.C. 20037
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright – The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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