The Acinetobacter baumannii group:a systemic review
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The Acinetobacter baumannii group: a systemic review
BACKGROUND The Acinetobacter baumannii group, including Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter genomospecies 3 and 13TU, is phenotypically indistinguishable and uniformly identified as Acinetobacter baumannii by laboratories of clinical microbiology. This review aimed to demonstrate the differences among them. METHODS Literatures associated with the Acinetobacter baumannii group were identifi...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1920-8642
DOI: 10.5847/wjem.j.issn.1920-8642.2013.03.002