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Surveillance for Surgical-Site Infections: It's Getting Better All the Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hilary M. Babcock
Hilary M. Babcock*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
*
Campus Box 8051, 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 10 , October 2003 , pp. 722 - 723
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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