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On the Need for a Separate Standard for Performance Testing of Negative-Pressure Isolation Rooms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

James P. Rydock
James P. Rydock*
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Norwegian Building Research Institute, Trondheim, Norway
*
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Hagskoleringen 7b, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , May 2006 , pp. 531 - 532
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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