Nosocomial Outbreak Caused by a Multiresistant Clone of Acinetobacter Baumannii: Results of the Case- Control and Molecular Epidemiologic Investigations

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 92-97

  Wanger, A R ^b   Armitige, L ^b  

^a Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84971880730     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/647063     Document Type: Article

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