Rapid and reliable real-time PCR assay for detection of the macrolide efflux gene and subsequent discrimination

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Debby M Klomberg1, Hanneke A de Valk, Johan W Mouton

  • 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Weg door Jonkerbos 100, 6532 SZ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Journal of Microbiological Methods
|December 14, 2004
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