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The Drainage Bag Additive Saga

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Calvin M. Kunin
Calvin M. Kunin*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
*
Pomerene Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Rm M110 Starling-Loving Hall, 320 W. 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1240
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 7 , July 1985 , pp. 261 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985

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