Role of environmental cleaning in controlling an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii on a neurosurgical intensive care unit
- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 56 (2), 106-110
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2003.10.017
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