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The Expanding Horizons of Infection Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Charles W. Stratton*
Affiliation:
Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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