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The International Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance The Perils of Paradise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joel N. Maslow
Joel N. Maslow*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Morristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, New Jersey
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Morristown Memorial Hospital, 100 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07962 ([email protected])
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , February 2013 , pp. 125 - 126
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013 

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