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Catheter Matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2016

Lindsay E. Nicolle
Lindsay E. Nicolle*
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada
*
Address correspondence to Professor Lindsay E. Nicolle, MD, FRCPC, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases University of Manitoba, Health Sciences Centre, Room GG443, 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg MB Canada (lnicolle@hsc.mb.ca).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , March 2016 , pp. 334 - 336
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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