Enhanced ability to colonize the skin: a possible explanation for the epidemic spread of certain strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis
- 31 December 1993
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 25 (4), 251-264
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0195-6701(93)90111-c
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