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Acinetobacter in the Air: Did Maryland Get It Wrong?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2015

L. Silvia Munoz-Price
L. Silvia Munoz-Price*
Affiliation:
Institute for Health and Society and the Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
*
Address correspondence to L. Silvia Munoz-Price, MD, PhD, Health Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, PO Box 26509, Milwaukee WI 53226 (smunozprice@mcw.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 7 , July 2015 , pp. 833 - 834
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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