Effect of antibiotic therapy on the density of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in the stool of colonized patients.
By C. Donskey, Tanvir K. Chowdhry, M. Hecker, C. Hoyen, J. Hanrahan, A. Hujer, Rebecca Hutton-Thomas, C. Whalen, Robert A. Bonomo, L. Rice. New England Journal of Medicine, 2000
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Subfields: Clinical Biochemistry, Infectious Diseases
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