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Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kenneth E. Aldridge
Kenneth E. Aldridge*
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , March/April 1982 , pp. 161 - 167
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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