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Enteral Nutrition: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

J. Levy*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology, Hôpital Universitaire Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology, Hôpital Universitaire Saint-Pierre, Rue Haute 322, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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