MYCOPLASMA AND UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS OF THE NEONATE

Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Sixth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 945-951

  Milisavljevic, Vladana ^a,b   Cherry, James D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MATTEL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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