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Factors Associated with Recovery of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in a Combat Support Hospital in Iraq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Wade K. Aldous  and
Edgie-Mark A. Co
Wade K. Aldous*
Affiliation:
Laboratory Services, 10th, Combat Support Hospital, Ibn Sina Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq Department of Pathology, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
Edgie-Mark A. Co
Affiliation:
Laboratory Services, 10th, Combat Support Hospital, Ibn Sina Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland
*
Brooke Army Medical Center, Department of Pathology, 3851 Roger Brooke Drive, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-6200 (wade.aldous@us.army.mil)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 2010 , pp. 425 - 427
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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