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Whither Infection Control in Community Hospitals? Musings About the Near Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Deverick J. Anderson  and
Daniel J. Sexton
Deverick J. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina
Daniel J. Sexton
Affiliation:
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina
*
DUMC Box 3605, Durham, NC 27710 (dja@duke.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 11 , November 2008 , pp. 1071 - 1073
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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