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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

John M. Boyce
John M. Boyce*
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Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 10 , October 1992 , pp. 571 - 574
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