Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: Position statement from the Joint SHEA and APIC Task Force
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- 1 March 2007
- journal article
- apic and-shea-joint-position-statement
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 35 (2) , 73-85
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2007.01.001
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