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News in Antimicrobial Resistance: Documenting the Progress of Pathogens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Allison McGeer
Allison McGeer*
Affiliation:
Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Room 1460, Department of Microbiology, 600 University Avenue, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM5G 1X5
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , February 2004 , pp. 97 - 98
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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