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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sorana Segal-Maurer
Sorana Segal-Maurer*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases, New York Hospital Queens Flushing, New York andWeill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 7 , July 2002 , pp. 360
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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