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. 2009 Nov;47(11):3793-4.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01773-09. Epub 2009 Sep 16.

Emergence in Italy of Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 producing KPC-3 Carbapenemase

Tommaso Giani  1 , Marco Maria D'Andrea, Patrizia Pecile, Luisa Borgianni, Pierluigi Nicoletti, Francesco Tonelli, Alessandro Bartoloni, Gian Maria Rossolini
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Emergence in Italy of Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 producing KPC-3 Carbapenemase

Tommaso Giani et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Nov.
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