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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hugh Tatlock M.D.  and
A. William Pasculle
A. William Pasculle*
Affiliation:
Assistant Director of Microbiology, Presbyterian-University Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*
Room 876, Presbyterian-University Hospital, DeSoto at O'Hara Sts., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , June 1981 , pp. 254 - 258
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1981

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