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A View From the Cutting Edge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Janine Jagger  and
Richard D. Pearson
Janine Jagger*
Affiliation:
Departments of Neurosurgery and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
Richard D. Pearson
Affiliation:
Departments of Neurosurgery and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
*
Box 180, Medical Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , February 1987 , pp. 51 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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