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M G Romney1, C Lowe1, V Leung1
1Infection Prevention and Control, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Journal of Hospital Infection
|March 22, 2015
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