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Gram-Negative, Hospital-Acquired Infections: A Growing Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lennox K. Archibald
Lennox K. Archibald*
Affiliation:
Regeneration Technologies, Inc., Alachua University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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Regeneration Technologies, Inc., 11621 Research Circle, P. O. Box 2650, Alachua, FL 32616
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 10 , October 2004 , pp. 809 - 811
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