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Emerging Evidence for Seasonality of Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joshua Freeman ,
Deverick Anderson  and
Daniel J. Sexton
Joshua Freeman*
Affiliation:
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Deverick Anderson
Affiliation:
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Daniel J. Sexton
Affiliation:
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*
Duke University Medical Center 3605, Durham, NC 27710 ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 8 , August 2009 , pp. 813 - 814
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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