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Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jack W. Shields
Jack W. Shields*
Affiliation:
Santa Barbara, California
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 10 , October 1998 , pp. 739
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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