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Environmental Cleaning of Outpatient Exam Rooms: How Frequent is Enough?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2017

Shela Sridhar ,
Mary Beth Graham ,
Sabrina Savage-Taft ,
John Fangman  and
L. Silvia Munoz-Price
Shela Sridhar
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mary Beth Graham
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sabrina Savage-Taft
Affiliation:
Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
John Fangman
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
L. Silvia Munoz-Price*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
*
Address correspondence to Dr L. Silvia Munoz-Price, 9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 114 - 115
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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