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Association of National Healthcare Safety Network–Defined Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections With Alternate Sources of Fever

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2015

Surbhi Leekha ,
Michael Anne Preas  and
Joan Hebden
Surbhi Leekha*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Michael Anne Preas
Affiliation:
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Joan Hebden
Affiliation:
Wolters Kluwer Health, Madison, Wisconsin
*
Address correspondence to Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, 110 S. Paca St, 6th Fl, Baltimore, MD 21201 (sleekha@epi.umaryland.edu).
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Abstract

Presented in part: 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; Dallas, Texas; April 1–4, 2011.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;36(10):1236–1238

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 10 , October 2015 , pp. 1236 - 1238
Copyright
© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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