Pandrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii causing nosocomial infections in a university hospital, Taiwan.

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Published in Emerg Infect Dis on August 01, 2002

Authors

Po-Ren Hsueh1, Lee-Jene Teng, Cheng-Yi Chen, Wen-Hwei Chen, Chong-Jen Yu, Shen-Wu Ho, Kwen-Tay Luh

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1: National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. hsporen@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw

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