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Is Filtered or Mineral Water Good for Us and Our Patients?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Franz D. Daschner
Franz D. Daschner*
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Medicine, and Hospital Epidemiology, Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Letter to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 12 , December 1998 , pp. 889 - 890
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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