Types of infectious outbreaks and their impact in elderly care facilities: a review of the literature.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Age and Ageing

• Publication date

  2010-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/ageing/afq029PMID 20332371
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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