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Defining Catheter-Related Infections (with Reply)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Daniel A. Nafziger  and
Issam Raad
Daniel A. Nafziger
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, Michigan
Issam Raad
Affiliation:
University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer, Center Houston, Texas
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Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , February 1995 , pp. 65 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995 

References

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