Prevalence and risk factors for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in adult emergency admissions – a case for screening all patients?
- 31 May 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier
- Vol. 66 (1) , 15-21
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2007.01.013
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