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Waterborne Pathogen Detection More than Just “Location, Location, Location…”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Brooke K. Decker  and
Tara N. Palmore
Brooke K. Decker
Affiliation:
Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
Tara N. Palmore*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
*
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (tpalmore@mail.nih.gov)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , February 2014 , pp. 130 - 131
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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