A case of neck abscess caused by rare hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, capsular type K20 and sequence type 420
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1476-0711
DOI: 10.1186/s12941-021-00453-8