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Neonatal colonization of group B Streptococcus in China: Prevalence, antimicrobial resistance, serotypes, and

Dan Guo1, Xuelian Cao2, Shunming Li1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China.

American Journal of Infection Control
|January 7, 2018
PubMed
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Group B Streptococcusantimicrobial susceptibilitymultilocus sequence typingnewbornsserotypes

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