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Redefining the National Healthcare Safety Network’s Definition of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: The Hazard of Including Candida Species
Published online by Cambridge University Press:
10 May 2016
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor–University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Jenifer Ramsey
Affiliation:
Division of Hospital Epidemiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Loren G. Miller
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor–University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Los Angeles, CaliforniaDivision of Hospital Epidemiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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Infectious Diseases Fellow, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 466, Torrance, CA 90509 ([email protected]).
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