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Survival of a Surrogate Virus on N95 Respirator Material

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lisa M. Casanova  and
Behelhem Waka
Lisa M. Casanova*
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Behelhem Waka
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
*
School of Public Health, PO Box 3995, Atlanta, GA 30302 (lcasanova@gsu.edu)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 12 , December 2013 , pp. 1334 - 1335
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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