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Improving Antibiotic Use Has Become Essential-Can Surgery Lead the Way?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

John E. McGowan Jr
John E. McGowan Jr*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Clinical Laboratories (Box 26248), Grady Memorial Hospital, 80 Butler Street, Atlanta, GA 30335
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 11 , Issue 11 , November 1990 , pp. 575 - 577
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1990

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