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Antibiotic Cycling: Is It Ready for Prime Time?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joseph F. John Jr*
Affiliation:
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Disease, the Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Disease, 1 RWJ Place 356 MEB, Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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