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Original Article

High antibiotic susceptibility among bacterial pathogens in Swedish ICUs
Report from a nation-wide surveillance program using TA90 as a novel index of susceptibility

Hakan Hanberger From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Marcus Erlandsson From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping, Sweden
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Lars G. Burman Swedish Institute for Infectious Diseases Control, Solna, Sweden
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Otto Cars Swedish Institute for Infectious Diseases Control, Solna, Sweden
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Hans Gill Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Informatics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping, Sweden
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Sune Lindgren Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping, Sweden
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Lennart E. Nilsson Department of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping, Sweden
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Barbro Olsson-liljequist Swedish Institute for Infectious Diseases Control, Solna, Sweden
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Sten Walther Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping, Sweden
& The Icu-strama Study Group show all
Pages 24-30 | Received 22 Aug 2003, Accepted 16 Oct 2003, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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