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Nosocomial Transmission and Infection Control Aspects of Parasitic and Ectoparasitic Diseases: Part I. Introduction/Enteric Parasites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Ludwig A. Lettau
Ludwig A. Lettau*
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Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Greenville Hospital System, Greenville, South Carolina
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Greenville Hospital System, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, SC 29605
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 59 - 66
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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