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Urethral Catheters, Condom Catheters, and Nosocomial Urinary Tract Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John W. Warren*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 10 S Pine St, Baltimore, MD 21201-1192
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996 

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