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The authors reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce P. Lanphear  and
Calvin C. Linnemann Jr
Bruce P. Lanphear
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatrics and of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
Calvin C. Linnemann Jr
Affiliation:
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , June 1995 , pp. 325 - 326
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