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Sites of Colonization with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESBL)-Producing Enterobacteriaceae: The Rationale for Screening

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sarah Tschudin-Sutter ,
Reno Frei ,
Marc Dangel ,
Anne Stranden  and
Andreas Franz Widmer
Sarah Tschudin-Sutter
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Reno Frei
Affiliation:
Division of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Marc Dangel
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Anne Stranden
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Andreas Franz Widmer*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
*
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland (widmera@uhbs.ch)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 11 , November 2012 , pp. 1170 - 1171
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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