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Failure of Sterilization Process Indicators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Birnbaum,
Helen Ayers and
L. Don Carlson
David Birnbaum
Affiliation:
Victoria General Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Helen Ayers
Affiliation:
Victoria General Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
L. Don Carlson
Affiliation:
Victoria General Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 12 , December 1987, pp. 491 - 492
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

References

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