Defining EPEC

Revista de Microbiologia

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages 130-133

  Kaper, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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