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Blood Culture Contamination A Clinical and Financial Burden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter H. Gilligan
Peter H. Gilligan*
Affiliation:
Clinical Microbiology-Immunology Laboratories and Phlebotomy Services, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Clinical Microbiology-Immunology Laboratories, CB 7600, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (pgilliga@unch.unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 22 - 23
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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