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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sumanth Gandra ,
William S. Scott  and
Vijaya Somaraju
Sumanth Gandra*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Massachusetts
William S. Scott
Affiliation:
Occupational Health, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and OSF St.Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois
Vijaya Somaraju
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Illinois
*
Infectious Diseases and Immunology Fellowship Office, UMass memorial Health Care, University Campus, 55 North Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA 01655 (gandrasatyam@gmail.com)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 5 , May 2011 , pp. 518 - 519
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