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Review
. 1998 Aug;36(8):2169-72.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.36.8.2169-2172.1998.

Preventing antibiotic resistance through rapid genotypic identification of bacteria and of their antibiotic resistance genes in the clinical microbiology laboratory

M G Bergeron  1 , M Ouellette
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Review

Preventing antibiotic resistance through rapid genotypic identification of bacteria and of their antibiotic resistance genes in the clinical microbiology laboratory

M G Bergeron et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1998 Aug.
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