Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in US Hospitals: Analysis of 24,179 Cases from a Prospective Nationwide Surveillance Study
Clinical Infectious Diseases2004Vol. 39(3), pp. 309–317
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Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Thomas Bischoff, Sandra Tallent, Harald Seifert, Richard P. Wenzel, Michael B. Edmond
Abstract
In this study, one of the largest multicenter studies performed to date, we found that the proportion of nosocomial BSIs due to antibiotic-resistant organisms is increasing in US hospitals.
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