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Use of Artificial Sputum Medium to Test Antibiotic Efficacy Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Conditions More Relevant to the Cystic Fibrosis Lung
Published on: June 5, 2012
Bacteriological investigations with ceftazidime in vitro
1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Klinische Chemie (Labor Dr. Gartner), Weingarten, West Germany.
The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
|October 7, 2009
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