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Skin Entry Site Swabbing a Poor Predictor of Catheter-Related Sepsis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2017

Clayton L. Golledge  and
Madeleine M. McPherson
Clayton L. Golledge
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia
Madeleine M. McPherson
Affiliation:
Infection Control Coordinator, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , February 1988 , pp. 54
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988

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