MRSA surveillance in a UK district hospital: measuring clinical isolates with MRSA is more useful than measuring MRSA bacteraemias
- 31 December 2011
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 79 (4), 287-291
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2011.08.014
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