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Child Care Center Directors' Opinions, Overuse of Antibiotics, and Social Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jonathan B. Kotch  and
David J. Weber
Jonathan B. Kotch*
Affiliation:
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, CB# 7445, Rosenau Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27590-7445 (Jonathan_kotch@unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 2010 , pp. 412 - 413
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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