Bad design, bad practices, bad bugs: frustrations in controlling an outbreak of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica in intensive care units.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Journal of Hospital Infection

• Publication date

  2013-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jhin.2013.05.012PMID 23958153
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