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A 1.5 Hour Procedure for Identification of Enterococcus Species Directly from Blood Cultures
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Published on: February 10, 2011

Rapid identification of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae from blood cultures

R G Knight, D M Shlaes

    Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    |January 1, 1983
    PubMed

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