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Self-Disinfecting Surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David J. Weber  and
William A. Rutala
David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
2163 Bioinformatics, CB #7030, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (dweber@unch.unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 10 - 13
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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