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William Craig, MD, responds to Dr. Silver'squestion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

William Craig
William Craig*
Affiliation:
Chief, Infectious Diseases, William S. Middletown Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , May 1989 , pp. 190 - 191
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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