Medical Errors and Hospital Infection Control
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Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Enterococci have caused infections in hospitalized patients for many decades. Given that they were part of the normal flora of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and that they frequently appeared as part of the flora in infections related to fecal contamination, they originally were considered endogenous pathogens of little nosocomial import This view began to change with the appearance of enteroc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/s0195941700042703