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The Impact of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections

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  1. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

    Karin E. Byers M.D., M.S. & Barry M. Farr M.D., M.Sc.

  2. The University of Virginia Health System, Charlottsville, Virginia

    Karin E. Byers M.D., M.S. & Barry M. Farr M.D., M.Sc.

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  1. Critical Care Medicine Department Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive Building 10, Room 7D43, Bethesda, MD, 20892

    Naomi P. O’Grady M.D.

  2. University Hospital Infection Control Program Department of Internal Medicine, University of Geneva Hospitals, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland

    Didier Pittet M.D.

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Byers, K.E., Farr, B.M. (2004). The Impact of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections. In: O’Grady, N.P., Pittet, D. (eds) Catheter-Related Infections in the Critically Ill. Perspectives on Critical Care Infectious Diseases, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8010-7_6

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