Multisociety guideline on reprocessing flexible GI endoscopes: 2011.
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Author(s): Bret T. Petersen, Jennifer Chennat, Jonathan Cohen, Peter B. Cotton, David A. Greenwald, Thomas E. Kowalski, Mary L. Krinsky, Walter G. Park, Irving M. Pike, Joseph Romagnuolo, William A. Rutala Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 32, No. 6 (June 2011), pp. 527-537 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660676 . Accessed: 11/05/2011 22:17
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology
دوره 32 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011