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Using an Intensified Infection Prevention Intervention to Control Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae at a Thai Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anucha Apisarnthanarak ,
Pattarachai Kiratisin ,
Thana Khawcharoenporn  and
David K. Warren
Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Pattarachai Kiratisin
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Thana Khawcharoenporn
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
David K. Warren
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Prathumthani, Thailand12120 (anapisarn@yahoo.com)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 9 , September 2012 , pp. 960 - 961
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012 

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