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The Need for Aseptic Barriers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nathan L. Belkin
Nathan L. Belkin*
Affiliation:
Superior Surgical Mfg. Co. Inc., Seminole, Florida
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 10 , October 1987 , pp. 400
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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