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How Can We Stem the Rising Tide of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lisa L. Maragakis  and
Trish M. Perl
Lisa L. Maragakis*
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Trish M. Perl
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Osier 425, Baltimore, MD 21287 (tperl@jhmi.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 2010 , pp. 338 - 340
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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