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Studies of Bloodstream Infection Outcomes: Reading Between the Lines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sara E. Cosgrove  and
Yehuda Carmeli
Sara E. Cosgrove*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
Yehuda Carmeli
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
*
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Carnegie 284/288, 600 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21287
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 12 , December 2003 , pp. 884 - 886
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003 

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