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Contamination, Acquisition, and Transmission of Pathogens: Implications for Research and Practice of Infection Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Linda M. Mundy
Linda M. Mundy*
Affiliation:
Department of Community Health, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri
*
Department of Community Health, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, 3545 Lafayette Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63104 (mundyLM@slu.edu or mundyL623@aol.com)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 7 , July 2008 , pp. 590 - 592
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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