Diarrhea in an infant due to Shigella flexneri 1 carrying multiple cephalosporinase-encoding genes
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Shigella flexneri sepsis in an infant.
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut Pathogens
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1757-4749
DOI: 10.1186/s13099-021-00413-9