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Risk of Transmission of Nosocomial Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) From Patients Colonized With MRSA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Christine Geffers  and
Barry M. Farr
Christine Geffers
Affiliation:
Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Barry M. Farr
Affiliation:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , February 2005 , pp. 114 - 115
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2005

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