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Lessons from the Roswell Park Bone Marrow Transplant Aspergillosis Outbreak

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Frank S. Rhame
Frank S. Rhame*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Program, University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, Infectious Diseases Section, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
*
Box 421, Mayo Memorial Building, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 9 , September 1985 , pp. 345 - 346
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985

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