Resistance trends of Acinetobacter spp. in Latin America and characterization of international dissemination of multi-drug resistant strains: five-year report of the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program
- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 8 (5), 284-291
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2003.11.009
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