Preventing infections in non-hospital settings: long-term care.

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Published in Emerg Infect Dis on April 11, 2001

Authors

L E Nicolle1

Author Affiliations

1: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. lnicolle@exchange.hsc.mb.ca

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