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Pseudoinfection Due to Mislabeling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Roland Schulze-Röbbecke  and
Claudia Schmitz
Roland Schulze-Röbbecke*
Affiliation:
Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Claudia Schmitz
Affiliation:
Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
*
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Krankenhaushygiene, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany (schulzrr@uni-duesseldorf.de)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , April 2009 , pp. 408
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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