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Surgical-Site Infections After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Discriminating Site-Specific Risk Factors to Improve Prevention Efforts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marie-Claude Roy
Marie-Claude Roy*
Affiliation:
Division of Microbiology, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
*
Division of Microbiology, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec, Pavillon Enfant-Jésus, 1401-18e Rue, Quebec City, Quebec G1J 1Z4, Canada
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , April 1998 , pp. 229 - 233
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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