Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a causative agent of postoperative intra-abdominal infection: relation to nasal colonization.

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  1999

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  Clinical Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  1999-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/313454PMID 10524968
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