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Rapid Methods for Identification of Common Clinical Isolates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hilda Ratner
Affiliation:
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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