1707Investigation of a Cluster of Mycobacterium interjectum Cases at a Tertiary Care Cancer Center
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Tertiary Care Cancer Center Ismini Kourouni, MD; Lauren Richardson, BA; Renee Webb, BS ; Paula Revell, PhD; Janet Eagan, RN, MPH; N. Esther Babady, PhD; Yi-Wei Tang, MD PhD; Mini Kamboj, MD; Medicine, Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY; Infection Control, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX; Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Clinical Microbiology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
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