Bad design, bad practices, bad bugs: frustrations in controlling an outbreak of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica in intensive care units
- 1 October 2013
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 85 (2), 134-140
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2013.05.012
Abstract
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