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The authors reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gillian M. McCarthy  and
John K. MacDonald
Gillian M. McCarthy
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, Ontario Ministry of Health
John K. MacDonald
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 12 , December 1998 , pp. 888 - 889
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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