Increasing Antibiotic Resistance among Methicillin‐ResistantStaphylococcus aureusStrains
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- 1 June 2008
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 46 (S5) , S360-S367
- https://doi.org/10.1086/533592
Abstract
Vancomycin use has increased dramatically worldwide since the mid-1980s, largely as a result of empirical and directed therapy against burgeoning metKeywords
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