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Is the European Interhospital Clonal Spread of Serotype O12 Pseudomonas aeruginosa Related to the Patients' Prolonged Carriage Duration?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joseph Watine
Joseph Watine*
Affiliation:
Hôpital Général, Rodez, France
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 7 , July 1999 , pp. 460 - 461
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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