Successful treatment of Enterococcus faecalis bacteremia with dalbavancin as an outpatient in an intravenous drug user
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2018.07.016