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Vol. 15. Issue 3.
Pages 296-297 (May - June 2011)
Vol. 15. Issue 3.
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.
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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