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Zero: What Is It, and How Do We Get There?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Victoria Fraser
Victoria Fraser*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
*
J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine, Codirector of Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8051, 660 S. Euclid, St. Louis, MO 63110 (vfraser@im.wustl.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 67 - 70
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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