International prospective study of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia: implications of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase production in nosocomial Infections.

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Published in Ann Intern Med on January 06, 2004

Authors

David L Paterson1, Wen-Chien Ko, Anne Von Gottberg, Sunita Mohapatra, Jose Maria Casellas, Herman Goossens, Lutfiye Mulazimoglu, Gordon Trenholme, Keith P Klugman, Robert A Bonomo, Louis B Rice, Marilyn M Wagener, Joseph G McCormack, Victor L Yu

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1: Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15240, USA.

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