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Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance: Learning to Live With Bias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert Gaynes
Robert Gaynes*
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Mailstop E-55, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333
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Editorial
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 11 , November 1995 , pp. 623 - 626
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995 

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