Broad- and narrow-spectrum antibiotics: an unhelpful categorization
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1198-743X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00274.x