Nosocomial Infections: The Definition Criteria

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  • Farideh Kouchak Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
  • Mehrdad Askarian Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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volume 37  issue 2

pages  72- 73

publication date 2012-06-01

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