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Organizational Issues in Implementation of a Large-Scale, Quantitative Respirator Fit–Testing Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Junaid Ahmad ,
Dino Pisaniello  and
Irene J. Wilkinson
Junaid Ahmad
Affiliation:
Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Dino Pisaniello*
Affiliation:
Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Irene J. Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Communicable Disease Control Branch, Department of Health, South Australia
*
Discipline of Public Health, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia (dino.pisaniello@adelaide.edu.au)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 9 , September 2010 , pp. 971 - 972
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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