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Sharing Eyedrops between Patients: When Will It End?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joanne Kinlay*
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Infection Prevention and Control, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Long-wood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 (joanne.kinlay@childrens.harvard.edu)
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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