Control of recent community-based outbreaks of invasive meningococcal disease in men who have sex with men in Europe and the United States.

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  • D Weiss
  • J K Varma
چکیده

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Europe: a survey among national experts from 39 countries, February 2013 9 by C Glasner, B Albiger, G Buist, A Tambić Andrašević, R Canton, Y Carmeli, AW Friedrich, CG Giske, Y Glupczynski, M Gniadkowski, DM Livermore, P Nordmann, L Poirel, GM Rossolini, H Seifert, A Vatopoulos, T Walsh, N Woodford, T Donker, DL Monnet, H Grundmann, the European Survey on Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (EuSCAPE) working group

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

دوره 18 28  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013