A Study of the Relationship Between Environmental Contamination with Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) and Patients' Acquisition of MRSA
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 27 (2) , 127-132
- https://doi.org/10.1086/500622
Abstract
A Study of the Relationship Between Environmental Contamination with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Patients' Acquisition of MRSA - Volume 27 Issue 2 - Katherine J. Hardy, Beryl A. Oppenheim, Savita Gossain, Fang Gao, Peter M. HawkeyKeywords
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