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Pages 296-297 (May - June 2011)
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Pages 296-297 (May - June 2011)
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Surveys of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in a university hospital intensive care unit in China
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Duo-shuang Xie1, Rui-ping Lai2, Shao-fa Nie3,
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Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, P.R.China.
1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; Department of Infection Control, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Hubei, China
2 Department of Infection Control, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Hubei, China
3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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