Pseudo‐outbreak ofMycobacterium fortuitumon a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Ward: Transient Respiratory Tract Colonization from a Contaminated Ice Machine
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- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 35 (1) , 32-38
- https://doi.org/10.1086/340741
Abstract
Infection Control surveillance revealed an abnormally high number of sputum samples growing Mycobacterium fortuitum from a single ward that houses thKeywords
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