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Are Room Decontamination Units Needed to Prevent Transmission of Environmental Pathogens?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William A. Rutala  and
David J. Weber
William A. Rutala*
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
130 Mason Farm Road, Bioinformatics, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030 (brutala@unch.unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 8 , August 2011 , pp. 743 - 747
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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