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Innovation and personal protective equipment (PPE) decontamination: Toward more sustainable infection prevention and control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2021

David L. Heymann
David L. Heymann*
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Professor, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Author for correspondence: David L. Heymann, E-mail: david.heymann@lshtm.ac.uk
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 42 , Issue 10 , October 2021 , pp. 1255 - 1256
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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