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Rapid and Specific Detection of Acinetobacter baumannii Infections Using a Recombinase Polymerase Amplification/Cas12a-based System
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Detection and characterisation of AmpC β-lactamase-producing isolates of Acinetobacter spp. in North India
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
|September 17, 2010
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