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Proton nuclear magnetic resonance for antimicrobial drug susceptibility studies: why has progress been slow?
Lara García-Álvarez1, Héctor Busto2, José A Oteo1
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Center for Biomedical Research of La Rioja (CIBIR), San Pedro University Hospital. Logroño, 26006, Spain.
Future Microbiology
|October 19, 2019
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