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Unusual Nosocomial Exposure to HINI Influenza Virus via Open-Chest Cardiac Massage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Burke A. Cunha ,
Uzma Syed ,
Valsamma Thekkel  and
Marlene Davis
Burke A. Cunha*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division, Infection Control Section, and the Employee Health Service, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, andState University of New York School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
Uzma Syed
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division, Infection Control Section, and the Employee Health Service, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, andState University of New York School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
Valsamma Thekkel
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division, Infection Control Section, and the Employee Health Service, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, andState University of New York School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
Marlene Davis
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division, Infection Control Section, and the Employee Health Service, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, andState University of New York School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
*
Winthrop-University Hospital, 222 Station Plaza North, Suite 432, Mineola, NY 11501
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 7 , July 2010 , pp. 775 - 776
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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