Community Acquired Bacteremia by Sphingomonas paucimobilis : Two Rare Case Reports.
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Community Acquired Bacteremia by Sphingomonas paucimobilis: Two Rare Case Reports.
S.paucimobilis has a diverse nutritional substrate spectrum and found in both environmental and hospital settings. Sphingomonas paucimobilis is rarely isolated from clinical specimen. This low virulence organism since has been reported to cause a variety of diseases since 1979. It has been reported to be associated with both community acquired and nosocomial diseases including bacteremia, cathe...
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عنوان ژورنال: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2249-782X
DOI: 10.7860/jcdr/2013/6459.3802