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Low-Temperature Sterilization Technologies: Do We Need to Redefine “Sterilization”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William A. Rutala  and
David J. Weber
William A. Rutala*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
547 Burnett-Womack Bldg, CB #7030, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , February 1996 , pp. 87 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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