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Using an Intensified Infection Prevention Intervention to Control Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae at a Thai Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Pattarachai Kiratisin
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Thana Khawcharoenporn
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
David K. Warren
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Prathumthani, Thailand12120 ([email protected])
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012 

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