Patient-to-Patient Transmission Is Important in Extended-Spectrum -Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Acquisition
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- 15 November 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 45 (10) , 1347-1350
- https://doi.org/10.1086/522657
Abstract
We performed a prospective cohort study to quantify the number of cases of patient-to-patient transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producingKeywords
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