Hospital outbreak control requires joint efforts from hospital management, microbiology and infection control
- 30 September 2010
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 76 (1), 26-31
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2010.01.018
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