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Hospital Infections from the WHO Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

B. Velimirovic
B. Velimirovic*
Affiliation:
Communicable Diseases, Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organizationm Denmark, Europe
*
Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional office for Europe, Scherfigsvej 8, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 4 , Issue 5 , October 1983 , pp. 364 - 366
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1983

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