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Nosocomial Infections Caused by Acinetobacter baumannii A Major Threat Worldwide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2017

Hervé Richet  and
Pierre Edouard Fournier
Hervé Richet*
Affiliation:
Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
Pierre Edouard Fournier
Affiliation:
Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
*
Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Mediterranée, 27 Blvd. Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 5, France (Herve.Richet@medecine.univ-mrs.fr). or Pierre-Edouard.Fournier@medecine.univ-mrs.fr)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 7 , July 2006 , pp. 645 - 646
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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