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Iodophor Antiseptics: Intrinsic Microbial Contamination with Resistant Bacteria

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 10 , October 1989 , pp. 443 - 446
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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