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Managing and Preventing Exposure Events from Inappropriately Reprocessed Endoscopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David J. Weber
David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Department of Hospital Epidemiology, UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
2163 Bioinformatics, CB #7030, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (dweber@unch.unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 7 , July 2012 , pp. 657 - 660
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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