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Twenty-four patients contracted systemic infections withAcinetobacter calcoaceticusduring a four-month period. Unheated room humidifiers at the patients' bedsides were implicated as the source of infection in six. The out-break was terminated with the removal of the humidifiers. (JAMA237:795-797, 1977)
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