Considerations for a WHO European strategy on health-care-associated infection, surveillance, and control

@article{Pittet2005ConsiderationsFA,
  title={Considerations for a WHO European strategy on health-care-associated infection, surveillance, and control},
  author={Didier Pittet and Benedetta Allegranzi and Hugo Sax and Luigi Bertinato and Ercole Concia and Barry D. Cookson and Jacques Fabry and Herv{\'e} M. Richet and Pauline Philip and Robert C. Spencer and Bernardus Ganter and Stefano Lazzari},
  journal={The Lancet. Infectious Diseases},
  year={2005},
  volume={5},
  pages={242 - 250}
}
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