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East North Central Region Has the Highest Prevalence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sumanth Gandra ,
Nikolay Braykov  and
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Sumanth Gandra*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
Nikolay Braykov
Affiliation:
Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, Washington, DC
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Affiliation:
Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, Washington, DC Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
*
55 Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA 01545 (sumanth.gandra@umassmemorial.org)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , April 2013 , pp. 443 - 445
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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