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Leading a Horse to Water: Are Crucial Lessons in Endoscopy and Outbreak Investigations Being Learned?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lawrence F. Muscarella
Lawrence F. Muscarella*
Affiliation:
Research and Development Custom Ultrasonics, Inc., Ivyland, Pennsylvania
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 7 , July 2002 , pp. 358 - 360
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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