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Biological Indicators for a Liquid Chemical Sterilizer A Solution to the Instrument Reprocessing Problem?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Walter W. Bond
Walter W. Bond*
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Hospital Environment Laboratory Branch, Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop C-01, Atlanta, GA 30333
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 6 , June 1993 , pp. 309 - 312
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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