Clinical and epidemiological features of an outbreak of acinetobacter infection in an intensive therapy unit.

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Journal of Medical Microbiology

• Publication date

  1995-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1099/00222615-43-1-55PMID 7608957
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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