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Shuffling Our Streptococcal Strategies: In-Hospital and Out

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alan L. Bisno
Alan L. Bisno*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis, Tennessee
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University of Tennessee, Center for the Health Sciences, 956 Court Avenue, Room 3H16, Memphis, TN 38163
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 5 , May 1985 , pp. 181 - 182
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985

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