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Investigation on the genomic diversity of OXA from isolated Acinetobacter baumannii

Zhen Ma1, Luqiu Zhou2, Hui Wang3

  • 1Department of Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University Guangzhou 510632, China ; Department of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen Longgang Central Hospital Shenzhen 518116, China.

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
|June 12, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
Acinetobacter baumanniiGenomic diversityOXA

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