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Use our hospital Ratings to see how hospitals near you perform in preventing blood-stream infections and how well they follow proper prevention measures..
Hospital infections: New studies find concerns for surgery patients and children 2011
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The Japanese are a disease of the skin, the Communists a disease of the blood-stream.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.
Oblomov in Dublin O'Toole, Fintan 2009
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It turned out his colon had ruptured, spilling pee-pee into his blood-stream.
Archive 2005-08-01 ps 2005
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It turned out his colon had ruptured, spilling pee-pee into his blood-stream.
A Crime of Passion ps 2005
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She felt he wanted his blood-stream to envelop hers.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Some spread quickly from their origin, traveling through the blood-stream and the lymphatic system and establishing new tumors in other parts of the body; others grow slowly and stay more or less in one place.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Knowing their source, he fought them studiously, but he knew they would get steadily worse, however resolute he was; they were coming out of his genes and his blood-stream, not his once finely honed, now dimming consciousness.
Anywhen Blish, James 1970
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Corpuscles grind in your own blood-stream, like gravel
Penological Study: Southern Exposure Warren, Robert Penn 1968
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On the other hand, after one hour any miniaturised germs in his blood-stream will expand to their normal size and that expansion might be harmful for all we know.
Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966
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