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Nosocomial Salmonellosis and Shigellosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Herbert L. DuPont
Herbert L. DuPont*
Affiliation:
University of Texas Medical School and School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
*
Medical School and School of Public Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, 6431 Fannin, 1.729JFB, Houston, TX 77030
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 12 , December 1991 , pp. 707 - 709
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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