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Malnutrition and Nosocomial Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Nevin S. Scrimshaw*
Affiliation:
Center for Population Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Center for Population Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , May 1989 , pp. 192 - 193
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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