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Descriptive Analysis of Healthcare-Associated Infections Other than Bloodstream, Respiratory, Urinary Tract, or Surgical Site Infections, 2001–2011

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hajime Kanamori ,
David J. Weber ,
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett ,
Vickie Brown ,
Mitsuo Kaku  and
William A. Rutala
Hajime Kanamori
Affiliation:
Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Vickie Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Mitsuo Kaku
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, CB 7030, 2153 Bioinformatics, 130 Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (dweber@unch.unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 12 , December 2012 , pp. 1276 - 1278
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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