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Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia and Peripheral Vascular Catheters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Evonne T. Curran ,
Shona Cairns ,
Jacqueline Reilly  and
Oliver Blatchford
Evonne T. Curran*
Affiliation:
Health Protection Scotland, National Health Service (NHS) National Services Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, 4th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 6QE, United Kingdom
Shona Cairns
Affiliation:
Health Protection Scotland, National Health Service (NHS) National Services Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, 4th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 6QE, United Kingdom
Jacqueline Reilly
Affiliation:
Health Protection Scotland, National Health Service (NHS) National Services Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, 4th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 6QE, United Kingdom
Oliver Blatchford
Affiliation:
Health Protection Scotland, National Health Service (NHS) National Services Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, 4th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 6QE, United Kingdom
*
Health Protection Scotland, NHS National Services Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, 4th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 6QE, United Kingdom ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 12 , December 2011 , pp. 1230
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

References

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