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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Charles W. Stratton
Charles W. Stratton*
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Clinical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 36 - 40
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1983

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