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Positive Predictive Value of a Percutaneously Drawn Blood Culture Growing Skin Flora Varies Markedly by Organism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Christine Geffers  and
Barry M. Farr
Christine Geffers
Affiliation:
University Medicine Berlin Berlin, Germany
Barry M. Farr
Affiliation:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 26 , Issue 6 , June 2005 , pp. 507 - 509
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2005

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