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Comment
. 2008 Feb;46(2):835.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02276-07.

Necessity of screening of both the nose and the throat to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in patients upon admission to an intensive care unit

Andreas F Widmer, Dominik Mertz, R Frei
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Necessity of screening of both the nose and the throat to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in patients upon admission to an intensive care unit

Andreas F Widmer et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Feb.
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