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Benzalkonium Chloride Is Still in Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Leigh G. Donowitz
Leigh G. Donowitz*
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University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center, Box 386, Charlottesville, VA 22908
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 186 - 187
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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