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Central venous catheter and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia in cancer patients

✍ Scribed by Maha Boktour; Hend Hanna; Shoaib Ansari; Boulos Bahna; Ray Hachem; Jeffrey Tarrand; Kenneth Rolston; Amar Safdar; Issam Raad

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
87 KB
Volume
106
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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