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Bruna Costa Moura do Vale1, Acácia Gentil Nogueira1, Thiago André Cidral1

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Medical Bacteriology Laboratory, Bioscience Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, Av. Senador Salgado Filho, S/N, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil.

BMC Infectious Diseases
|March 1, 2019
PubMed
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Keywords:
ChlorhexidineCoagulase-negative StaphylococciHealthcare-associated infectionqacA/B genes

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