Non-touch fittings in hospitals: a possible source of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Legionella spp.
- 31 October 2001
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 49 (2) , 117-121
- https://doi.org/10.1053/jhin.2001.1060
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