Working party reportRevised guidelines for the control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in hospitals: Report of a combined working party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the Hospital Infection Society and the Infection Control Nurses Association☆,☆☆,★
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