Personal Reflections on Nosocomial Staphylococcal Infections and the Development of Hospital Surveillance

Reviews of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 1005-1019

  Littlefield, Dwight R ^a,b,d   Ossman, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Kennebec Valley Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^d Kennebec Valley Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; INFECTION CONTROL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0024759753     PISSN: 01620886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/11.6.1005     Document Type: Article

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