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Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease and Other Nosocomial Legionella Pneumonias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard L. Myerowitz
Richard L. Myerowitz*
Affiliation:
Forbes Health System, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*
Forbes Health System, Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 107 - 111
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1983

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