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The Expanding Role of Healthcare Epidemiology—Home and Long-Term Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Denise O. Garrett  and
William R. Jarvis
Denise O. Garrett
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
William R. Jarvis*
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Hospital Infections Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop E-69, Atlanta, GA 30333
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 11 , November 1996 , pp. 714 - 717
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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