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Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae: A Statewide Survey of Detection in Massachusetts Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Evangeline Thibodeau*
Affiliation:
Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
Robert Duncan
Affiliation:
Lahey Clinic and Tufts University School of Medicine, Burlington, Massachusetts
David R. Snydman
Affiliation:
Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
Barbara Bolstorff
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Johanna Vostok
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Kerri Barton
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Alfred DeMaria Jr.
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
*
Tufts Medical Center Box #238, 800 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111 (evangeline.thibodeau@gmail.com)

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012 

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