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Pseudobacteremia and Use of the Radiometric Blood Culture Analyzer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Leigh G. Donowitz
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
Joseph D. Schwartzman
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

References

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