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Combating the ascendancy of MRSA: Early efforts in eradication of colonization

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Goldstein, E.J.C. Combating the ascendancy of MRSA: Early efforts in eradication of colonization. Curr Infect Dis Rep 9, 389–390 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-007-0060-x

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