Urease production as a marker of virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
R S Bradbury1, D W Reid, A C Champion
1Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia. r.bradbury@cqu.edu.au
British Journal of Biomedical Science
|January 8, 2015
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