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Blood culture contamination: persisting problems and partial progress

Melvin P Weinstein¹

¹Department of Medicine, University of Medicine, Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903-0019, USA. weinstei@umdnj.edu

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

|June 7, 2003

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