Estimating the proportion of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: two definitions used in the USA yield dramatically different estimates
- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 60 (4) , 329-332
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2004.12.025
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