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Reply to Weber and Rutala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tony Worthington ,
Tarja Karpanen ,
Anna Casey ,
Peter Lambert  and
Tom Elliott
Tony Worthington*
Affiliation:
School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Tarja Karpanen
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Anna Casey
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Peter Lambert
Affiliation:
School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Tom Elliott
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
*
Tony Worthington, CSci, FIBMS, PhD, FHEA, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, United Kingdom (t.worthington@aston.ac.uk)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 6 , June 2012 , pp. 645 - 646
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012 

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