Blood culture Gram stain and clinical categorization based empirical antimicrobial therapy of bloodstream infection
- 1 April 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
- Vol. 25 (4) , 329-333
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2004.11.015
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