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Reply to Belay et al

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William A. Rutala  and
David J. Weber
William A. Rutala*
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, 130 Mason Farm Road, Bioinformatics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030, (brutala@unch.unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 12 , December 2010 , pp. 1306 - 1308
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