High frequency of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates with VanB phenotype and vanA genotype in Korean hospitals
- 31 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Vol. 56 (4), 401-406
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.06.007
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