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Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases Volume 42, 2010 - Issue 8
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An outbreak of varicella in staff nurses exposed to a patient with localized herpes zoster

Lisa Saidel-Odes Infectious Diseases InstituteCorrespondence[email protected]
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Abraham Borer Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Unit
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Klaris Riesenberg Infectious Diseases Institute
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Amit Frenkel Internal Medicine A, Soroka University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel
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Roslan Sherlis Internal Medicine A, Soroka University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel
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Leah Bouhnick Infectious Diseases Institute
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Fransisc Schlaeffer Infectious Diseases Institute
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Pages 620-622 | Received 02 Nov 2009, Accepted 01 Mar 2010, Published online: 29 Apr 2010

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