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Respiratory Syncytial Virus in a General Hospital and the Need for Extensive Measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yvonne Duijvestijn ,
Paul Caesar ,
Tjalling de Vries  and
Dick Veenendaal
Yvonne Duijvestijn
Affiliation:
Medical Center Leeuwarden
Paul Caesar
Affiliation:
Medical Center Leeuwarden
Tjalling de Vries
Affiliation:
Medical Center Leeuwarden
Dick Veenendaal
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Public Health in Friesland, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
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Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 7 , July 2000 , pp. 435 - 436
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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