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Reply to Roberts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mats Walder  and
Torsten Holmdahl
Mats Walder*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
Torsten Holmdahl
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
*
Medical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Skåne University Hospital SUS, SE-20502, Sweden (mats.walder@med.lu.se)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , March 2012 , pp. 312 - 313
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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