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Surveillance of Device-Associated Infections in Intensive Care Units in South Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paula Virginia Michelon Toledo ,
Juliane Cristina Costa Oliveira ,
Karin Regina Luhm  and
Working Group in Healthcare-Associated Infections (WGHAI)
Paula Virginia Michelon Toledo*
Affiliation:
Coordenação de Vigilância Epidemiológica, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil Departamento de Medicina, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, Brazil
Juliane Cristina Costa Oliveira
Affiliation:
Coordenação de Vigilância Epidemiológica, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
Karin Regina Luhm
Affiliation:
Coordenação de Vigilância Epidemiológica, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil Departamento de Saúde Comunit ária, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
*
Coordenação de Vigilância Epidemiológica, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Curitiba, Travessa Amando Mann, 92, sobrado 2 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil80430-010 (paulavmtoledo@yahoo.com.br)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , March 2012 , pp. 309 - 311
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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