Clinical pathology rounds: Vancomycin-resistant lactobacillus casei

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 508-510

  Rodriguez, Faon ^a   Sarkarati, Ebrahim ^b   Burenko, Marco O ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Cape Canaveral Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENDOCARDITIS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS CASEI;

EID: 0029764772     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/27.8.508     Document Type: Article

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