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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Barry Farr
Barry Farr*
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University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , April 1988 , pp. 144
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988

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