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On Contact Precautions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Deverick J. Anderson ,
David J. Weber  and
Emily Sickbert-Bennett
Deverick J. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Emily Sickbert-Bennett
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
Duke University Medical Center, Box 102359, Durham, NC 27710 (deverick.anderson@duke.edu)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , March 2014 , pp. 222 - 224
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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