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Reply to Holtschlag

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Warren N. Fawley
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, the General Infirmary, Old Medical School, Leeds, United Kingdom
Sarah Underwood
Affiliation:
Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Jane Freeman
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, the General Infirmary, Old Medical School, Leeds, United Kingdom
Simon D. Baines
Affiliation:
Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Katie Saxton
Affiliation:
Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Keith Stephenson
Affiliation:
Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Robert C. Owens Jr
Affiliation:
Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine
Mark H. Wilcox*
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, the General Infirmary, Old Medical School, Leeds, United Kingdom Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
*
Department of Microbiology, University of Leeds and the General Infirmary, Old Medical School, Leeds, LSI 3EX, UK ([email protected])
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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