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Detection of Bacteremia: Technical Aspects of the Blood Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter A. Gross
Affiliation:
Professor of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Hackensack, New Jersey
Melvin P. Weinstein
Affiliation:
Division of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Rutgers Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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