5 Years of Experience Implementing a Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Search and Destroy Policy at the Largest University Medical Center in the Netherlands

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  2009

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  Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2009-10-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/605921PMID 19712031
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