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The Evolving World of Healthcare-Associated Bloodstream Infection Surveillance and Prevention: Is Your System as Good as You Think?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William R. Jarvis
William R. Jarvis*
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MS A-07, Atlanta, GA30030
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , May 2002 , pp. 236 - 238
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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