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Should Infection Control Teams Enforce an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program for All Clinicians?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kenichi Nomura
Kenichi Nomura*
Affiliation:
Department of Hematology and Oncology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Graduate School of Medical Science, and the Division of Microbiology, Kyoto Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment, Kyoto, Japan
*
Department of Hematology and Oncology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Graduate School of Medical Science, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, 602-8566, Kyoto, Japan ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , May 2008 , pp. 468 - 469
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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