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The Epidemiology and Control of VRE: Still Struggling to Come of Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

C. Glen Mayhall
C. Glen Mayhall*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
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Division of Infectious Diseases, 301 University Blvd, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 10 , October 1999 , pp. 650 - 652
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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