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Once MRSA, Always MRSA? Setting up a Hospital Preadmission Questionnaire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Johan H.T. Wagenvoort ,
Hub M. J. Toenbreker ,
Theo J. Werink  and
Hein H.G. Berendsen
Johan H.T. Wagenvoort
Affiliation:
Atrium Medical Centre, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Hub M. J. Toenbreker
Affiliation:
Atrium Medical Centre, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Theo J. Werink
Affiliation:
Atrium Medical Centre, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Hein H.G. Berendsen
Affiliation:
Atrium Medical Centre, Heerlen, The Netherlands
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , April 2000 , pp. 251 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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