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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Public Concern, and Legislative Mandates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nevio Cimolai
Nevio Cimolai*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
*
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H3V4, Canada ([email protected])
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Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 7 , July 2007 , pp. 896
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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