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Application of Plasmid Analysis to Infection Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dennis R. Schaberg
Dennis R. Schaberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
*
Department of Internal Medicine, Office of the Chairman, The University of Michigan Medical Center, 3100A Taubman Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0368
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 7 , July 1986 , pp. 353 - 354
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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