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Antibiotic Awareness Week and Hospital Antimicrobial Use Point Prevalence Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2017

Nalini Singh ,
Arno Muller ,
Gabriel Levy Hara ,
Jose Luis Castro  and
Pilar Ramon-Pardo
Nalini Singh*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Arno Muller
Affiliation:
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Gabriel Levy Hara
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jose Luis Castro
Affiliation:
Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC
Pilar Ramon-Pardo
Affiliation:
Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC
*
Address correspondence to Nalini Singh, Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University, Children’s National Health System, 111 Michigan Ave, NW, Washington, DC, 20010 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 12 , December 2017 , pp. 1498 - 1500
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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