Mechanisms of Multidrug Resistance in Acinetobacter Species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Clinical Infectious Diseases - Tập 43 Số Supplement_2 - Trang S49-S56 - 2006
Robert A. Bonomo1, Dóra Szabó2
1Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
2Semmelweiss University, Budapest, Hungary

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