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Xenotransplantation: Is the Future Upon Us?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michele L. Pearson ,
William R. Jarvis ,
Thomas M. Folks  and
Louisa E. Chapman
Michele L. Pearson*
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia
William R. Jarvis
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia
Thomas M. Folks
Affiliation:
Division of AIDS, STD, TB Laboratory Research National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Louisa E. Chapman
Affiliation:
Division of AIDS, STD, TB Laboratory Research National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Hospital Infections Program, Mailstop E-69, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 305 - 307
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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