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Oscar the Cat, Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Attributable Mortality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Silvio Daniel Pitlik
Silvio Daniel Pitlik*
Affiliation:
Medicine C, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel
*
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (pitlik@post.tau.ac.il)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 5 , May 2009 , pp. 500 - 501
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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