Routine disinfection of patients’ environmental surfaces. Myth or reality?
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 42 (2) , 113-117
- https://doi.org/10.1053/jhin.1999.0567
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