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When an Infection Prompts Removal of an Unnecessary Device

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nicola Petrosillo ,
Stefano Di Bella  and
Fabrizio Taglietti
Nicola Petrosillo*
Affiliation:
Second Division, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani, ” Rome, Italy
Stefano Di Bella
Affiliation:
Second Division, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani, ” Rome, Italy
Fabrizio Taglietti
Affiliation:
Second Division, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani, ” Rome, Italy
*
Second Division, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani, ” Via Portuense 292, Rome 00149, Italy (nicola.petrosillo@inmi.it)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 8 , August 2012 , pp. 858 - 860
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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