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Did CA-MRSA Bacteremia Exist in Taiwanese Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hung-Chin Tsai ,
Cheng-Len Sy  and
Yao-Shen Chen
Hung-Chin Tsai*
Affiliation:
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Cheng-Len Sy
Affiliation:
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Yao-Shen Chen
Affiliation:
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
*
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, 386 Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan (hctsail011@yahoo.com.tw)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 7 , July 2009 , pp. 718
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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