Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization of Prion-Contaminated Medical Instruments

From Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care (both authors), and the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine (both authors), Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Received November 9, 2009; accepted November 19, 2009; electronically published January 6, 2010. 2010 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2010/3102-0001$15.00. DOI: 10.1086/650197 epidemiology of the creutzfeldtjakob disease prion

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