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Risk Factors for Infection in Cardiac Surgery: Will the Real Culprit Please Stand Up?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Allen B. Kaiser
Allen B. Kaiser*
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Department of Medicine, Saint Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 8 , August 1984 , pp. 369 - 370
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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