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Current Handwashing Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Elaine Larson
Elaine Larson*
Affiliation:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Nurse Scholar, 6428 Wishbone Terrace, Cabin John, MD 20818
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1984, pp. 15 - 17
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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