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Déjà Vu … All Over Again? The Importance of Instrument Drying

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lawrence F. Muscarella
Lawrence F. Muscarella*
Affiliation:
Custom Ultrasonics, Inc, Ivyland, Pennsylvania
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 10 , October 2000 , pp. 628 - 629
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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