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Blood Culture Contamination Definitions Can Obscure the Extent of Blood Culture Contamination: A New Standard for Satisfactory Institution Performance Is Needed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2016

Richard G. Patton
Richard G. Patton*
Affiliation:
CellNetix Pathology and Laboratories, PLLC, Seattle, Washington.
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Richard G. Patton, MD, 2561 Magnolia Boulevard West, Seattle, WA 98199 (richardgpatton@comcast.net).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , June 2016 , pp. 736 - 738
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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