Acinetobacter baumanni - Understanding and fighting a new emerging pathogen

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 6-8

  Averhoff, Beate ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84923324010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12224     Document Type: Article

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