Clinical- and cost-ineffectiveness of targeted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening of high-risk patients admitted to a low-prevalence teaching hospital.

Am J Infect Control

Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Infection Control Section, and Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY; School of Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY. Electronic address:

Published: November 2013

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November 2013

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