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The Challenges of Pertussis Outbreaks in Healthcare Facilities: Is There A Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Kathryn M. Edwards  and
Thomas R. Talbot
Kathryn M. Edwards
Affiliation:
Divisions of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee Pediatric Clinical Research Office, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
Thomas R. Talbot*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
A-2200 Medical Center North, 1161 21 st Avenue South, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232 (tom.talbot@vanderbilt.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , June 2006 , pp. 537 - 540
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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