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Monitoring of Cleaning Practices for Portable, Multiuse Medical Equipment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Fibi Attia ,
Cynthia J. Whitener ,
Patricia Hnatuck ,
Dianne Stolberg  and
Kathleen G. Julian
Fibi Attia*
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention Department, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Cynthia J. Whitener
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Patricia Hnatuck
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention Department, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Dianne Stolberg
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention Department, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Kathleen G. Julian
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
*
Department of Infection Prevention, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033 (fattia@hmc.psu.edu)
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Letters to the Editor
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 12 , December 2013 , pp. 1331 - 1333
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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