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Are We Doing Enough to Contain Acinetobacter Infections?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Steven E. Brooks ,
Mary A. Walczak  and
Rizwanullah Hameed
Steven E. Brooks
Affiliation:
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Mary A. Walczak
Affiliation:
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Rizwanullah Hameed
Affiliation:
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , May 2000 , pp. 304
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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