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Hospital-Onset Bloodstream Infection Rates After Discontinuing Active Surveillance Cultures for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Regional Burn Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2016

Bayless E. Drum ,
Katherine Collinsworth ,
Brett D. Arnoldo  and
Pranavi V. Sreeramoju
Bayless E. Drum
Affiliation:
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas
Katherine Collinsworth
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Prevention, Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas, Texas
Brett D. Arnoldo
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Pranavi V. Sreeramoju*
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Prevention, Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas, Texas Department of Medicine-Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
*
Address correspondence to Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD, MPH, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9113 (pranavi.sreeramoju@utsouthwestern.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , March 2017 , pp. 371 - 372
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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