Daily antibiotic cost of nosocomial infections in a Turkish university hospital.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on January 31, 2005

Authors

Dilara Inan1, Rabin Saba, Filiz Gunseren, Gozde Ongut, Ozge Turhan, Ata Nevzat Yalcin, Latife Mamikoglu

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. inan@akdeniz.edu.tr

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