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Staphylococcus aureus ST398 detected in pigs in Australia
Mitchell D Groves1, Matthew V N O'Sullivan, Huub J M Brouwers
1School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia.
The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
|January 22, 2014
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