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Case Reports
. 2020 Aug 17:13:217-218.
eCollection 2020.

An Overlooked Cause of Rifampin Resistance

Yasmine Hussein Agha  1 , John Millard  2 , Maha Assi  1   3
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Case Reports

An Overlooked Cause of Rifampin Resistance

Yasmine Hussein Agha et al. Kans J Med. .
No abstract available

Keywords: bacteria; methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus; prosthesis-related infection; rifampin resistance protein.

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