335Infrequent Air Contamination with Acinetobacter baumannii Surrounding Known Colonized/Infected patients
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335. Infrequent Air Contamination with Acinetobacter baumannii Surrounding Known Colonized/Infected patients Clare Rock, MD; Anthony D. Harris, MD, MPH; J. Kristie Johnson, PhD; Werner Bischoff; Kerri Thom, MD, MS; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina, NC
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