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Evaluation of Hospital Infection Rates and Control Measures in a Cardiac Surgery Hospital: 10 Years' Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Cely Saad Abboud  and
Ana Lúcia Firmino
Cely Saad Abboud
Affiliation:
Institute Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, Brazil
Ana Lúcia Firmino
Affiliation:
Institute Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, Brazil
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 8 , August 2000 , pp. 494 - 495
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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