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114Case Mix Index Predicts Healthcare Facility Onset Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

scientific article published in December 2014

1234. Racial Disparities in Invasive Staphylococcus aureus (iSA) Disease in Metropolitan Atlanta, a Population-Based Assessment, 2016

137Developing an Approach to Evaluating the Quality of Antibiotic Prescribing in Hospitalized Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) and Non-catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).

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1835. Evaluating Regional Nursing Home Antibiograms to Advance Stewardship at 233 Skilled Nursing Facilities in Georgia, USA

2162. Factors Affecting the Geographic Variability of Antibiotic-Resistant Healthcare-Associated Infections in the United States Using the CDC’s Antibiotic Resistance Patient Safety Atlas

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837. Prior Hospitalizations Among Cases of Community-Associated Clostridioides difficile Infection—10 US States, 2014–2015

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Ability of laboratories to detect emerging antimicrobial resistance in nosocomial pathogens: a survey of project ICARE laboratories

scientific article published in September 2000

Acremonium kiliense endophthalmitis that occurred after cataract extraction in an ambulatory surgical center and was traced to an environmental reservoir.

scientific article published on February 1996

Advances in Data-Driven Responses to Preventing Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Across Health-Care Settings

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

An outbreak of fatal fluoride intoxication in a long-term hemodialysis unit

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

Antifungal prophylaxis to prevent neonatal candidiasis: a survey of perinatal physician practices

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

Antimicrobial proficiency testing of National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System hospital laboratories

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Antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units

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Antimicrobial resistance prevalence rates in hospital antibiograms reflect prevalence rates among pathogens associated with hospital-acquired infections

scientific article published on 21 June 2001

Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Associated with Healthcare-Associated Infections Summary of Data Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009–2010 ⬇️

scientific article published on November 27, 2012

Are Antibiograms Ready for Prime Time in the Nursing Home?

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Bioterrorism-Related Inhalational Anthrax: The First 10 Cases Reported in the United States ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2001

Burden of Clostridium difficile infection in the United States

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Candidemia is costly--plain and simple

scientific article published on 20 September 2005

Changing incidence of Candida bloodstream infections among NICU patients in the United States: 1995-2004.

scientific article published in May 2006

Characteristics of hospitals and infection control professionals participating in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System 1999 ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2001

Characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates collected in 2005 and 2006 from patients with invasive disease: a population-based analysis

scientific article published on 25 March 2009

Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Adults and Children ⬇️

scientific article published on January 4, 2011

Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Adults and Children: Executive Summary ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and healthcare risk factors

scientific article published on December 2006

Community-onset invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections following hospital discharge

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Comparison of Incidence of Bloodstream Infection with Methicillin‐ResistantStaphylococcusaureusbetween England and United States, 2006–2007 ⬇️

scientific article published on October 15, 2010

Comparison of Rates of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Patients With 1 vs 2 Central Venous Catheters

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Comparison of community- and health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection

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Comparison of the use of administrative data and an active system for surveillance of invasive aspergillosis .

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Contaminated product water as the source of Phialemonium curvatum bloodstream infection among patients undergoing hemodialysis

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Creating reasonable antibiograms for antibiotic stewardship programs in nursing homes: Analysis of 260 facilities in a large geographic region, 2016-2017

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

Cycling empirical antimicrobial agents to prevent emergence of antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria among intensive care unit patients

scientific article published in December 2004

Determinants of Clostridium difficile Infection Incidence Across Diverse United States Geographic Locations

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Determinants of vancomycin use in adult intensive care units in 41 United States hospitals

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Determining risk factors for candidemia among newborn infants from population-based surveillance: Baltimore, Maryland, 1998-2000.

scientific article published in July 2005

Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events: Executive Summary

scholarly article by S. S. Magill et al published 23 October 2013 in Respiratory Care

Developing a new national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary

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Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events

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Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events*.

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Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary

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Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary.

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Device-Associated Infection Rates, Device Utilization, and Antimicrobial Resistance in Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals Reporting to the National Healthcare Safely Network, 2010 ⬇️

scientific article published on August 23, 2012

Difficult-to-Treat Resistance in Gram-negative Bacteremia at 173 US Hospitals: Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Prevalence, Predictors, and Outcome of Resistance to All First-line Agents

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance

scientific article published on October 2003

Effect of nonpayment for preventable infections in U.S. hospitals.

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Effective state-based surveillance for multidrug-resistant organisms related to health care-associated infections

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Emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a Memphis, Tennessee Children's Hospital

scientific article published on July 2004

Emerging Infections Program as Surveillance for Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

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Epidemiologic and molecular characterization of an outbreak of Candida parapsilosis bloodstream infections in a community hospital

scientific article published on October 2004

Epidemiological and microbiological characterization of infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin, United States, 1997-2001.

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Epidemiology and predictors of mortality in cases of Candida bloodstream infection: results from population-based surveillance, barcelona, Spain, from 2002 to 2003.

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Epidemiology of a Dominant Clonal Strain of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium at Separate Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1998

Epidemiology of community-onset candidemia in Connecticut and Maryland

scientific article published on 30 May 2006

Epidemiology of nosocomial fungal infections

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Estimating National Trends in Inpatient Antibiotic Use Among US Hospitals From 2006 to 2012.

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Evaluating Epidemiology and Improving Surveillance of Infections Associated with Health Care, United States

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Evaluating movement of patients with Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections in the Greater Atlanta Metropolitan Area using social network analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Evaluating state-specific antibiotic resistance measures derived from central line-associated bloodstream infections, national healthcare safety network, 2011.

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Evaluating the Use of the Case Mix Index for Risk Adjustment of Healthcare-Associated Infection Data: An Illustration using Clostridium difficile Infection Data from the National Healthcare Safety Network

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Evaluating the potential public health impact of a Staphylococcus aureus vaccine through use of population-based surveillance for invasive methicillin-resistant S. aureus disease in the United States

scientific article published on 2 July 2009

Evaluation of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification Codes for reporting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections at a hospital in Illinois

scientific article published in 2010

Evaluation of amphotericin B interpretive breakpoints for Candida bloodstream isolates by correlation with therapeutic outcome

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Evaluation of the NCCLS extended-spectrum beta-lactamase confirmation methods for Escherichia coli with isolates collected during Project ICARE

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Excess costs of hospital care associated with neonatal candidemia

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Executive summary: Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events

scientific article published on December 2013

Factors Associated With Inter-Hospital Variability of Inpatient Antibiotic Use in a Cohort of US Hospitals

scientific article published on 09 December 2015

Factors affecting the geographic variability of antibiotic-resistant healthcare-associated infections in the United States using the CDC Antibiotic Resistance Patient Safety Atlas

scientific article published on 12 April 2019

Feeding back surveillance data to prevent hospital-acquired infections

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Glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus: evaluation of a novel screening method and results of a survey of selected U.S. hospitals.

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Guillain-Barre Syndrome During the 2009-2010 H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Campaign: Population-based Surveillance Among 45 Million Americans ⬇️

scientific article published on May 11, 2012

Health care-associated invasive MRSA infections, 2005-2008.

scientific article published in August 2010

Impact of USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on clinical outcomes of patients with pneumonia or central line-associated bloodstream infections

scientific article published on 20 April 2012

Impact of early central venous catheter removal on outcome in patients with candidaemia

scientific article published in 2007

Implementing a strategy for monitoring inpatient antimicrobial use among hospitals in the United States

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Implications of detecting the mold Syncephalastrum in clinical specimens of New Orleans residents after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

scientific article published on April 2007

Improved Risk Adjustment in Public Reporting: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgical Site Infections ⬇️

scientific article published on March 20, 2012

Improving Risk-Adjusted Measures of Surgical Site Infection for the National Healthcare Safely Network ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

Improving surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia in an era of public reporting and performance measurement

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

In Data We Trust? Comparison of Electronic Versus Manual Abstraction of Antimicrobial Prescribing Quality Metrics for Hospitalized Veterans With Pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Incidence Trends in Pathogen-Specific Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections in US Intensive Care Units, 1990–2010 ⬇️

scientific article published on July 16, 2013

Incidence of invasive aspergillosis following hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplantation: interim results of a prospective multicenter surveillance program

scientific article published in May 2005

Increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units

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Infection with vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus containing the vanA resistance gene

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Invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States

scientific article (publication date: 17 October 2007)

Investigating Systematic Misclassification of Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) to Secondary Bloodstream Infection During Health Care–Associated Infection Reporting ⬇️

scientific article published on June 7, 2012

Magnitude and prevention of nosocomial infections in the intensive care unit

scientific article published on June 1997

Management of inpatients colonized or infected with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in hospitals in the United States

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Meaningful measure of performance: A foundation built on valid, reproducible findings from surveillance of health care-associated infections ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Measuring Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance.

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Measuring the scope and magnitude of hospital-associated infection in the United States: the value of prevalence surveys

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus central line-associated bloodstream infections in US intensive care units, 1997-2007.

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease in three communities

scientific article published in April 2005

Mold prevention strategies and possible health effects in the aftermath of hurricanes and major floods ⬇️

journal article published in 2006

Mold prevention strategies and possible health effects in the aftermath of hurricanes and major floods ⬇️

chapter published in 2012

Monitoring antimicrobial use and resistance: comparison with a national benchmark on reducing vancomycin use and vancomycin-resistant enterococci

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More challenges in the prevention and management of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin disease

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Multicenter evaluation of computer automated versus traditional surveillance of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections

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Multistate outbreak of Fusarium keratitis associated with use of a contact lens solution

scientific article published in August 2006

Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections

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NHSN annual update: antimicrobial-resistant pathogens associated with healthcare-associated infections: annual summary of data reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006-2007

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National burden of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, United States, 2011.

scientific article published on November 2013

National estimates of central line-associated bloodstream infections in critical care patients.

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Network Approach for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

No evidence of a mild form of inhalational Bacillus anthracis infection during a bioterrorism-related inhalational anthrax outbreak in Washington, D.C., in 2001.

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Nosocomial acquisition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistant to both ciprofloxacin and imipenem: a risk factor and laboratory analysis

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Outbreak of bloodstream infection with the mold Phialemonium among patients receiving dialysis at a hemodialysis unit

journal article published in 2006

Outbreak of cutaneous Rhizopus arrhizus infection associated with karaya ostomy bags

scientific article published on 27 September 2006

Outcomes among inmates treated for coccidioidomycosis at a correctional institution during a community outbreak, Kern County, California, 2004.

scientific article published in December 2009

Perceived impact of the Medicare policy to adjust payment for health care-associated infections ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2012

Persistence of fluoroquinolone-resistant, multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in a long-term-care facility: efforts to reduce intrafacility transmission

scientific article published in March 2005

Postrecall surveillance following a multistate fusarium keratitis outbreak, 2004 through 2006.

scientific article published in December 2007

Practices to improve antimicrobial use at 47 US hospitals: the status of the 1997 SHEA/IDSA position paper recommendations. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Infectious Diseases Society of America

scientific article published in April 2000

Prescriber perceptions of fluoroquinolones, extended-spectrum cephalosporins, and Clostridioides difficile infection

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals in Jacksonville, Florida ⬇️

scientific article published on January 12, 2012

Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in the United States, 2001-2002.

scientific article published on 15 December 2005

Prevalence of antimicrobial use in US acute care hospitals, May-September 2011.

scientific article published on October 2014

Preventing hospital-acquired Legionnaires' disease: A snapshot of clinical practices and water management approaches in US acute-care hospitals

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Probabilistic Measurement of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

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Quantification of occupational and community risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among healthcare workers in a large U.S. healthcare system

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Recommendations for metrics for multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings: SHEA/HICPAC Position paper .

scientific article published in October 2008

Research needs in antibiotic stewardship

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Risk Factors for Early RecurrentClostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1998

Risk Factors for Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection After Recent Discharge From an Acute-Care Hospitalization, 2011-2013.

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Risk factors for community-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections: results from parallel studies including methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive S. aureus compared to uninfected controls

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Risk of hospital-acquired legionnaires' disease in cities using monochloramine versus other water disinfectants

scientific article published in August 2003

Routine cycling of antimicrobial agents as an infection-control measure

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SHEA-CDC TB survey, Part I: Status of TB infection control programs at member hospitals, 1989-1992. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

scientific article published in March 1995

SHEA-CDC TB survey, Part II: Efficacy of TB infection control programs at member hospitals, 1992. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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Secular trend of hospital-acquired candidemia among intensive care unit patients in the United States during 1989-1999.

scientific article published on 2 August 2002

Status of tuberculosis infection control programs at United States hospitals, 1989 to 1992. APIC. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology

scientific article published on 01 August 1996

Surveillance of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in United States hospitals: project ICARE phase 2. Project Intensive Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology (ICARE) hospitals

scholarly article by Scott K Fridkin et al published August 1999 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Survey of health care-associated infections

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Temporal changes in prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in 23 US hospitals

scientific article published on July 2002

The Fog May be Lifting Around Antibiotic Use Metrics and Interfacility Comparison

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

The Influence of the Composition of the Nursing Staff on Primary Bloodstream Infection Rates in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit

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The changing face of fungal infections in health care settings

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The effect of renal dysfunction on antimicrobial use measurements

scientific article published on 2 December 2002

The effect of vancomycin and third-generation cephalosporins on prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in 126 U.S. adult intensive care units

scientific article published in August 2001

The epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus colonization in a medical intensive care unit

scientific article published in April 2003

The impact of an antibiotic cycling program on empirical therapy for gram-negative infections

scientific article published in December 2006

The impact of an electronic medical record nudge on reducing testing for hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

The role of understaffing in central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infections

scientific article published in 1996

Transmission of HIV in dialysis centre

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Trends in Candida Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Among NICUs, 1999–2009 ⬇️

scientific article published on June 18, 2012

Trends in Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Intensive Care Units—United States, 1990–2007 ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

Trends in incidence of late-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in neonatal intensive care units: data from the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System, 1995-2004.

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Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a Home Health-Care Patient ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2001

Vancomycin-intermediate and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus: what the infectious disease specialist needs to know

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Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the absence of vancomycin exposure.

scientific article published on 24 March 2004

Variability of Antibiotic Prescribing in a Large Healthcare Network Despite Adjusting for Patient-Mix: Reconsidering Targets for Improved Prescribing

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Vital Signs: Estimated Effects of a Coordinated Approach for Action to Reduce Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Health Care Facilities - United States

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Vital Signs: Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospitals - United States, 2014.

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Vital Signs: Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospitals - United States, 2014.

scientific article published in July 2016

Vital signs: improving antibiotic use among hospitalized patients

scientific article published in March 2014

Zika Virus Infection in Patient with No Known Risk Factors, Utah, USA, 2016.

scientific article published on August 2017

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