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Comparison of the double-disk, combined disk, and Etest methods for detecting metallo-beta-lactamases in

Jing-Jou Yan1, Jiunn-Jong Wu, Shu-Huei Tsai

  • 1Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan. jingjou@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|May 12, 2004
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