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Dangers of “Eye-to-Eye” Contact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Patricia L. Hibberd  and
Ann Sullivan Baker
Patricia L. Hibberd
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Ann Sullivan Baker*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Infection Control and Medical Units, Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirman, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Infection Control Unit, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , March 1989 , pp. 99 - 101
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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