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Sampling Surfaces for Ebola Virus Persistence After Cleaning Procedures in High-Level Isolation Settings: The Experience With 2 Patients at the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2016

Vincenzo Puro ,
Francesco M Fusco ,
Antonella Petrecchia ,
Silvia Pittalis ,
Mario Antonini ,
Licia Bordi ,
Eleonora Lalle ,
Concetta Castilletti ,
Antonino Di Caro  and
Maria Rosaria Capobianchi
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Vincenzo Puro*
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Francesco M Fusco
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Antonella Petrecchia
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Silvia Pittalis
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Mario Antonini
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Licia Bordi
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Eleonora Lalle
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Concetta Castilletti
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Antonino Di Caro
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Maria Rosaria Capobianchi
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
Giuseppe Ippolito
Affiliation:
Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
*
Address correspondence to Vincenzo Puro, MD, Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, via Portuense 292, 00149, Rome, Italy (vincenzo.puro@inmi.it).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , June 2016 , pp. 723 - 725
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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