Clinical impact of an infectious disease service on the management of bloodstream infection.

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Published in Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis on July 01, 2000

Authors

U Fluckiger1, W Zimmerli, H Sax, R Frei, A F Widmer

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Epidemiology, Basel University Hospital, Switzerland.

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