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Impact of Nosocomial Infections on Outcome Myths and Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alejandro E. Macías
Alejandro E. Macías*
Affiliation:
Facultad de Medicina de León, Universidad de Guanjuato, México
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , April 2000 , pp. 248 - 249
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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