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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections: It's Time to Get Tough

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Harold C. Standiford
Harold C. Standiford*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Section of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, 3900 Loch Raven Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 5 , May 1987 , pp. 187 - 190
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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