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Another Disinfectant for Enterococci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alice N. Neely  and
Matthew P. Maley
Alice N. Neely
Affiliation:
Shriners Hospital for Children–Shriners Burns Hospitals, Cincinnati, Ohio
Matthew P. Maley
Affiliation:
Shriners Hospital for Children–Shriners Burns Hospitals, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , June 1999 , pp. 388 - 389
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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