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Surveillance for Surgical-Site Infections: It's Getting Better All the Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hilary M. Babcock*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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Campus Box 8051, 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
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Abstract

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Type
Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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