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Reply to Rumbak and Cancio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

L. Silvia Munoz-Price  and
Robert A. Weinstein
L. Silvia Munoz-Price*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Miami, and the Department of Infection Control, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
Robert A. Weinstein
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, andRush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
*
Department of Infection Control, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Park Plaza West, Room L-302, 1611 NW 12th Avenue, Miami FL, 33136 (smunozprice@med.miami.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 8 , August 2010 , pp. 880
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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