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The Transmission of Infections in Hospitals by Staff Carriers, Methods of Prevention and Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

F.D. Daschner
F.D. Daschner*
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Freiburg, West Germany
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , March 1985 , pp. 97 - 99
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985

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