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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Preparedness, Management, and Impact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark B. Loeb
Mark B. Loeb*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
*
Room 3200 MDCL, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 12 , December 2004 , pp. 1017 - 1019
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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