Phenotypic variation of clinical Serratia marcescens isolates repeatedly recovered from individual patients

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 124-135

  Traub, Walter H ^a,b   Eiden, Antje ^a   Leonhard, Birgit ^a   Bauer, Dierk ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0030174884     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(96)80161-7     Document Type: Article

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