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Antibiotic Resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stuart B. Levy*
Affiliation:
The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111
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Abstract

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Type
Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1983

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