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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stephan Harbarth  and
Didier Pittet
Stephan Harbarth
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Didier Pittet
Affiliation:
The University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , May 2000 , pp. 306 - 307
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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