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Alternative to IV Filter Usage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bryan Simmons
Bryan Simmons*
Affiliation:
Infection Control, Methodist Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 9 , September 1985 , pp. 342 - 344
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985

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