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Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections Associated With Contaminated Water in a University Hospital in Tunisia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Wejdene Mansour ,
Olfa Bouallegue ,
Houyem Said ,
Sana Dahmen  and
Noureddine Boujaafar
Wejdene Mansour*
Affiliation:
Unité des Infections à Bactéries Multirésistantes aux Antibiotiques, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, CHU Sahloul, Sousse, Tunisia
Olfa Bouallegue
Affiliation:
Unité des Infections à Bactéries Multirésistantes aux Antibiotiques, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, CHU Sahloul, Sousse, Tunisia
Houyem Said
Affiliation:
Service d'Hygiène Hospitalière, CHU Sahloul, Sousse, Tunisia
Sana Dahmen
Affiliation:
Unité des Infections à Bactéries Multirésistantes aux Antibiotiques, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, CHU Sahloul, Sousse, Tunisia
Noureddine Boujaafar
Affiliation:
Unité des Infections à Bactéries Multirésistantes aux Antibiotiques, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, CHU Sahloul, Sousse, Tunisia
*
Unité des Infections à Bactéries Multirésistantes aux Antibiotiques, UR/29/04, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, CHU Sahloul, 4054 Sousse, Tunisie (wejmbr@yahoo.fr)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , April 2008 , pp. 378 - 380
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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