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Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci in Blood Cultures The Clinician's Dilemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gordon L. Archer
Gordon L. Archer*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
*
Box 49, MCV Station, Richmond, VA 32398-0001
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 12 , December 1985 , pp. 477 - 478
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985

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