Health-care associated infections in children after cardiac surgery in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (PCICU)
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Health-care associated infections in children after cardiac surgery in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (PCICU).
Key words: health-care associated infections (HAIs); cardiac intensive care unit (CICU); pediatric cardiac surgery Copyright © 2011 Siddiqui et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Health-care associated infection (...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1972-2680
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.1760