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Toxic Shock in a Hospital Employee Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bryan P. Simmons ,
Munn  and
Michael Gelfand
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 7 , July 1986 , pp. 350 - 352
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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