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July 10, 2001 / le 10 juillet 2001
CMAJ  2001:165(1)

The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has created new challenges for infection prevention and control services in health care facilities. In this issue, Andrew Simor and colleagues report on the first 5 years of a Canadian surveillance program (page 21) and Jan Verhoef describes the aggressive control measures used in Dutch hospitals (page 31).

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5 Global doubts
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7 Le doute global
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13 Letters • Correspondance
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21 The evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Canadian hospitals: 5 years of national surveillance
A.E. Simor, M. Ofner-Agostini, E. Bryce, K. Green, A. McGeer, M. Mulvey, S. Paton, and the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, Health Canada
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27 Availability of antidotes at acute care hospitals in Ontario
D.N. Juurlink, M.A. McGuigan, T.W. Paton, D.A. Redelmeier
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  Commentary • Commentaire
31 Stopping short the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
J. Verhoef
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33 Hazards of systemic steroids for ventilator-dependent preterm infants: What would a parent want?
K.J. Barrington
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35 Boundary crossing: the physician and the photojournalist
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37 Hospital medicine in Cambodia: a visiting doctor's perspective
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45 Rheumatology: 15. Osteoporosis
J.P. Wade
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51 Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a summary of current scientific knowledge in relation to public health
M.B. Coulthart, N.R. Cashman
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59 A policy analysis of major decisions relating to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the blood supply
K. Wilson, P.C. Hébert, A. Laupacis, C. Dornan, M. Ricketts, N. Ahmad, I. Graham
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136 Passionately opposed to pesticides
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