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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections: A Growing Infection Control Problem?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John M. Boyce
John M. Boyce*
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University of Mississippi, School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , October 1980 , pp. 335 - 337
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1980

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