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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bertil Nyström*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985 

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