Search for the insertion element IS256 within the ica locus of Staphylococcus epidermidis clinical isolates collected from biomaterial-associated infections
- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Biomaterials
- Vol. 25 (18), 4117-4125
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2003.11.027
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