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Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Pathogens Multiple Approaches and Measures for Prevention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Jan E. Patterson
Jan E. Patterson*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and the Medical Service, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
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South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX 78229, (pattersonj@uthscsa.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 9 , September 2006 , pp. 889 - 892
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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