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Pseudobacteremia Outbreak of Pseudomonas oryzihabitans in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joong Sik Eom ,
Hee Jin Cheong  and
Woo Joo Kim
Joong Sik Eom
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Hee Jin Cheong
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Woo Joo Kim*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Guro Hospital, 97 Gurodong-gil, Guro-gu, Seoul 152-703, Korea( wjkim@korea.ac.kr)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 8 , August 2009 , pp. 803 - 804
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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