Cross-sectional point prevalence survey to study the environmental contamination of nosocomial pathogens in intensive care units under real-life conditions
- 1 January 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 98 (1), 90-95
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2017.09.019
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Funding Information
- Christian Doppler Research Association
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