Isolation of Acinetobacter spp. from clinical specimens at the Hospital Clinico Regional "Guillermo Grant Benavente", Concepcion;Aislamiento de Acinetobacter spp. desde muestras clínicas en el Hospital Clínico Regional "Guillermo Grant Benavente", Conception

Revista Chilena de Infectologia

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 321-325

  Dominguez Y , Mariana ^a,c   Sepulveda A , Marcela ^a   Bello T , Helia ^a   Gonzalez R , Gerardo ^a   Mella M , Sergio ^a   Zemelman Z , Raul ^b  

^a Microbiología ^*  (Chile)

^b Bacteriology

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Hospital infections; Phenotypic typing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250196227     PISSN: 07161018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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