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Infection Control: Old Myths and New Realities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William Schaffner*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, TN 37232

Abstract

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Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1980

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