Epidemiology of Inappropriate Empiric Antibiotic Therapy for Bacteremia Based on Discordant In vitro Susceptibilities: Risk factors and Taxon-level Variation in Burden and Outcome in 156 US hospitals, 2000–2014
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دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017