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The Stethoscope as a Potential Source of Transmission of Bacteria (with reply)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ojan Assadian ,
Afshin Assadian ,
Christoph Aspöck  and
Walter Koller
Ojan Assadian
Affiliation:
Klinische Abteilung für, Krankenhaushygiene, Vienna, Austria
Afshin Assadian
Affiliation:
Klinische Abteilung für, Krankenhaushygiene, Vienna, Austria
Christoph Aspöck
Affiliation:
Klinische Abteilung für, Krankenhaushygiene, Vienna, Austria
Walter Koller
Affiliation:
Klinische Abteilung für, Krankenhaushygiene, Vienna, Austria
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 298 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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