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Role of Environmental Contamination in the Transmission of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David J. Weber  and
William A. Rutala
David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
547 Burnett-Womack, CB #7030, Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 5 , May 1997 , pp. 306 - 309
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