Evaluating hygienic cleaning in health care settings: What you do not know can harm your patients
- 30 June 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 38 (5), S41-S50
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2010.03.004
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