Description of outbreaks of health-care-associated infections related to compounding pharmacies, 2000-12.

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Published in Am J Health Syst Pharm on August 01, 2013

Authors

Catherine Staes1, Jason Jacobs, Jeanmarie Mayer, Jill Allen

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. catherine.staes@hsc.utah.edu

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