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Success of Targeted Strategies to Reduce Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Lisa Saiman
Lisa Saiman*
Affiliation:
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to Lisa Saiman, MD MPH, Columbia University Medical Center, 650 West 168th Street PH 4 West Room 470, New York, NY 10032 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , April 2016 , pp. 388 - 389
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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