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Medical-Device Reprocessing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michelle J. Alfa
Michelle J. Alfa*
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, St Boniface General Hospital, Tache, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
*
Dept of Microbiology, St Boniface General Hospital, 409 Tache, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaR2H2A6
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 8 , August 2000 , pp. 496 - 498
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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