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Pertussis: An Underappreciated Risk for Nosocomial Outbreaks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2016

David J. Weber  and
William A. Rutala
David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Departments of Hospital Epidemiology and Occupational Health, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Departments of Hospital Epidemiology and Occupational Health, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
547 Burnett-Womack, CB #7030, Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 11 , November 1998 , pp. 825 - 828
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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