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From Ritual to Reason and Back Again: OSHA and the Evolution of Infection Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2022

William M. Valenti
William M. Valenti*
Affiliation:
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
*
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642
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Editorial
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 7 , July 1988 , pp. 289 - 290
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988

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