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Addressing the Emergence and Impact of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Organisms: A Critical Focus for the Next Decade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Ebbing Lautenbach  and
Eli N. Perencevich
Ebbing Lautenbach*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eli N. Perencevich
Affiliation:
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, and Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation, Iowa City Veterans Administration Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa
*
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 825 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021 (ebbing@mail.med.upenn.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 4: Special Topic Issue: Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Multidrug-Resistant Organisms , April 2014 , pp. 333 - 335
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