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Pseudo-epidemic in an Acute-Care Teaching Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Abdul B. Zafar
Abdul B. Zafar*
Affiliation:
Arlington Hospital, Arlington, Virginia
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 10 , October 1998 , pp. 739 - 740
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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