Epidemiology and clinical significance of moraxella catarrhalis in upper respiratory tract infections in children

Medical Microbiology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 195-203

  Huebner, Johannes ^a   Berner, Reinhard ^a   Schumacher, Richard Fabian ^a   Kropec, Andrea ^a   Brandis, Mathias ^a   Forster, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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