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The Stethoscope— A Vector of Infection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Julio C. Arroyo ,
Kathy Harrison  and
Robert Birgenheier
Julio C. Arroyo
Affiliation:
Medical and Nursing Services, W.J.B. Dorn Veterans' Hospital and University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina
Kathy Harrison
Affiliation:
Medical and Nursing Services, W.J.B. Dorn Veterans' Hospital and University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina
Robert Birgenheier
Affiliation:
Medical and Nursing Services, W.J.B. Dorn Veterans' Hospital and University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , August 1983 , pp. 189
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1983

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