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Nosocomial Pertussis in the Nineties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

James D. Cherry
James D. Cherry*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
*
UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, 22-442 MDCC, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1752
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 10 , October 1995 , pp. 553 - 555
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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