Blood culture systems

Laboratory Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 189-210

  Michael Dunne, W ^a   LaRocco, Mark ^b  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

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