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Black-Water Floods and Hospital-Based Postflood Mold Investigations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anucha Apisarnthanarak ,
Thana Khawcharoenporn  and
Linda M. Mundy
Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailand
Thana Khawcharoenporn
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailand
Linda M. Mundy
Affiliation:
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailand 12120 (anapisarn@yahoo.com)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 12 , December 2012 , pp. 1266 - 1268
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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