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Reply to Edgar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Leonard A. Mermel  and
Jonas Marschall
Leonard A. Mermel*
Affiliation:
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown Universityand Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Jonas Marschall
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy St., Providence, RI 02903 ([email protected])
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , April 2009 , pp. 403 - 404
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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