Association of an Active Surveillance and Decolonization Program on Incidence of Clinical Cultures Growing Staphylococcus Aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Overview

Journal Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Health Services
Infectious Diseases
Nursing
Public Health

Date 2018 Apr 21

PMID 29673410

Citations 6

Authors

Annie Voskertchian

Ibukunoluwa C Akinboyo

Elizabeth Colantuoni

Julia Johnson

Aaron M Milstone

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