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High Rate of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa at a Tertiary-Care Teaching Hospital in Southern Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alexandre Prehn Zavascki ,
Ricardo Pedrini Cruz  and
Luciano Zubaran Goldani
Alexandre Prehn Zavascki
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit
Ricardo Pedrini Cruz
Affiliation:
Hospital Sāo Lucas da Pontificía, Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Luciano Zubaran Goldani
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 10 , October 2004 , pp. 805 - 808
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004 

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