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Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology: Thirty Years Later

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard P. Wenzel*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
*
Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1001 E Broad Street, PO Box 980663, Richmond, Virginia 23298 (rwenzel@mcvh-vcu.edu)

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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