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Pseudobacteremia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joseph F. John Jr.  and
Edward R. Bannister
Joseph F. John Jr.
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolinaand Veterans Administration Medical Center Charleston, South Carolina
Edward R. Bannister
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolinaand Veterans Administration Medical Center Charleston, South Carolina
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , February 1984 , pp. 69 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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