Blood Culture Contamination: Persisting Problems and Partial Progress
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- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 41 (6) , 2275-2278
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.41.6.2275-2278.2003
Abstract
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