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Improved Understanding and Control of Nosocomial Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Are We Overdoing It?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alan I. Hartstein
Alan I. Hartstein*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Department of Infection Control/Epidemiology, and the Infection Control/Epidemiology Laboratory, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
*
Department of Infection Control/Epidemiology, Wishard Memorial Hospital, 1001 West 10th St., Ott Building 211, Indianapolis, IN 46202
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , May 1995 , pp. 257 - 259
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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