Nosocomial legionnaires' disease: lessons from a four-year prospective study.

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• Publication year

  1991

• Venue

  American Journal of Infection Control

• Publication date

  1991-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/0196-6553(91)90043-CPMID 2053716
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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