How to discriminate contamination from bloodstream infection due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: a prospective study with 654 patients
- 1 September 2012
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Clinical Microbiology & Infection
- Vol. 18 (9), E355-E361
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03964.x
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