Virtually all methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the largest Portuguese teaching hospital are caused by two internationally spread multiresistant strains: the ‘Iberian’ and the ‘Brazilian’ clones of MRSA
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Clinical Microbiology & Infection
- Vol. 4 (7), 373-384
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00081.x
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