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Surveillance of the Surgical Wound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Ronald Lee Nichols
Ronald Lee Nichols*
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, The Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
*
Department of Surgery, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA 70112
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 11 , Issue 10 , October 1990 , pp. 513 - 514
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1990 

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