Clinical and economic impact of contaminated blood cultures within the hospital setting
- 1 March 2011
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 77 (3), 233-236
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2010.09.033
Abstract
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