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Commentary: The Emergency Department—An Evolving Epicenter for Healthcare Worker Acquisition of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kyle J. Popovich
Kyle J. Popovich*
Affiliation:
Rush University Medical Center, and John H. Stroger, Jr., Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois
*
1900 West Polk Street, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL 60612, (kyle_popovich@rush.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , June 2010 , pp. 581 - 583
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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