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Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Outside the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2016

Andreas F. Widmer ,
Hugo Sax  and
Didier Pittet
Andreas F. Widmer
Affiliation:
University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Hugo Sax
Affiliation:
University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Didier Pittet*
Affiliation:
University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
*
Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals, Rue Micheli-du-Crest 24, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 17 - 21
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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