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Theory and Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Keith F. Woeltje
Keith F. Woeltje*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8051, 660 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110-1094, ([email protected])
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 8 , August 2006 , pp. 791 - 793
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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