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Infection Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries and Resource-Limited Settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Anucha Apisarnthanarak  and
Linda M. Mundy
Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasart University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Linda M. Mundy
Affiliation:
Philadelphia FIGHT, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasart University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand12120, (anapisarn@yahoo.com)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 8 , August 2006 , pp. 885 - 887
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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