Presence of β-Lactamase Encoding Genes in Burkholderia cepacia Complex Isolated from Soil

João Pedro Rueda Furlan1, Danilo Garcia Sanchez1, Ana Lúcia Fachin2

  • 11 Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo , Ribeirão Preto, Brazil .

Microbial Drug Resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.)
|September 16, 2017
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