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The Inguinal Skin: An Important Site of Colonization with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Manuela Buehlmann
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Switzerland
Hans Fankhauser
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Switzerland
Reto Laffer
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Switzerland
Thomas Bregenzer
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Switzerland
Andreas F. Widmer*
Affiliation:
Cantonal Hospital, Aarau, and the Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
*
University Hospital, Basel 4031, Switzerland ([email protected])

Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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