Dwarfs in disguise: multiple spinal abscesses and spondylodiscitis caused by an Enterococcus faecium small-colony variant
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عنوان ژورنال: Access Microbiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2516-8290
DOI: 10.1099/acmi.0.000012