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A Pseudo-outbreak in a Nursing Home

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Christiane Poulin
Affiliation:
Health and Welfare Canada Ottawa, Canada
Walter F. Schlech III
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada
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Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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