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Cost Containment in Infection Control: Cost-Effective Use of the Throat Culture in Acute Pharyngitis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter A. Gross  and
David Tiersten
David Tiersten*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Hackensack Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey
*
Hackensack Medical Center, Department of Pathology, 30 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , March 1986 , pp. 188 - 190
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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