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The Need for Additional Investigation of Room Decontamination Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Leander Po  and
Philip C. Carling
John Leander Po
Affiliation:
Banner Estrella Medicai Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Philip C. Carling*
Affiliation:
Caritas Carney Medical Center, Dorchester, Massachusetts
*
Caritas Carney Medical Center, 2100 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02124 (Phillip.Carling.MD@caritaschristi.org)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 7 , July 2010 , pp. 776 - 777
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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