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New Approaches to Decontamination of Rooms After Patients Are Discharged

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John M. Boyce
John M. Boyce*
Affiliation:
Hospital of Saint Raphael and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
*
Infectious Diseases Section, Hospital of Saint Raphael, 1450 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06511 (JBoyce@srhs.org)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 6 , June 2009 , pp. 515 - 517
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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