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Infection Prevention Control Bundle of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Which One Is More Important?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Anucha Apisarnthanarak  and
Linda M. Mundy
Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailand
Linda M. Mundy
Affiliation:
GlaxoSmithKline, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailand 12120 (anapisarn@yahoo.com)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , February 2014 , pp. 207 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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