An Epidemic of Burkholderia cepacia Transmitted between Patients
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Alison Holmes, Rathel Nolan, Rebecca Taylor, Richard Finley, Margaret Riley, Ru-zhang Jiang, Suzanne Steinbach, and Richard Goldstein Section of Molecular Genetics, Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson; Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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تاریخ انتشار 1999