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Infectious Waste Management — Will Science Prevail?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Eddie R. Hedrick
Eddie R. Hedrick*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri-Columbia Hospitals and Clinics, Columbia, Missouri
*
Infection Control/Employee Health, University of Missouri-Columbia Hospital & Clinics, One Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65212
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 11 , November 1988 , pp. 488 - 490
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988

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