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. 2021 Apr:147:117-119.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.01.017. Epub 2021 Jan 21.

Prevention of healthcare-associated respiratory-viral infections amongst oncology inpatients: Infection prevention outcomes during coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic

Liang En Wee  1 , Edwin P Conceicao  2 , Kennedy Y-Y Ng  3 , Chee K Tham  3 , Indumathi Venkatachalam  4
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Prevention of healthcare-associated respiratory-viral infections amongst oncology inpatients: Infection prevention outcomes during coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic

Liang En Wee et al. Eur J Cancer. 2021 Apr.
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Conflict of interest statement The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Rates of healthcare-associated respiratory-viral infections amongst oncology admissions at the National Cancer Centre, Singapore, before and during COVID-19 pandemic.
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