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Contribution of Tap Water and Environmental Surfaces to Nosocomial Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lawrence F. Muscarella
Lawrence F. Muscarella*
Affiliation:
Custom Ultrasonics, Inc., Ivyland, Pennsylvania
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Custom Ultrasonics, Inc., 144 Railroad Drive, Ivyland, PA 18974
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , April 2004 , pp. 342 - 345
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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