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Clinical Significance of Low Colony-Count Urine Cultures Among Hospitalized Inpatients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2018

Marc-André Smith ,
Michael J. Lamb ,
Laura Baillie ,
Andrew Simor  and
Jerome A. Leis
Marc-André Smith*
Affiliation:
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael J. Lamb
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Laura Baillie
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Andrew Simor
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of Infectious Diseases, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jerome A. Leis
Affiliation:
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of Infectious Diseases, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
*
Address correspondence to Marc-André Smith, MD, MSc, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , April 2018 , pp. 488 - 489
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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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