Healthcare-Associated Infections

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 579-588.e6

  Coffin, Susan E ^a,b   Zaoutis, Theoklis E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4377-2702-9.00103-3     Document Type: Chapter

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