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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Philippe Brouqui
Philippe Brouqui*
Affiliation:
Comité de Lutte Contre les Infections Nosocomiales, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Marseilles, France
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 9 , September 2003 , pp. 637 - 638
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