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Nosocomial Infections Surveillance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Philip S. Brachman
Philip S. Brachman*
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Emory University School of Public Health, 1599 Clifton Rd., Atlanta, GA 30329
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , April 1993 , pp. 194 - 196
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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