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Environmental Contamination with Staphylococcus aureus and Outbreaks: The Cause or the Effect?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Neil L. Barg
Neil L. Barg*
Affiliation:
St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
*
Assistant Professor of Medicine, St. Thomas Hospital, PO. Box 380, Nashville, TN 3 7202
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 7 , July 1993 , pp. 367 - 368
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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