Widespread occurrence of integrons causing multiple antibiotic resistance in bacteria [3]

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Volumn 349, Issue 9067, 1997, Pages 1742-1743

  Jones, Mark E ^a   Peters, Edith ^b   Weersink, Anne Marie ^b   Fluit, Ad ^b   Verhoef, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INTEGRON; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030941321     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)62954-6     Document Type: Article

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