Meningitis Caused by Streptococcus suis Serotype 14, North America
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Ana Carolina Bernardes Terzian, Roberta Vieira de Moraes Bronzoni, Betânia Paiva Drumond, Mônica Da Silva-Nunes, Natal Santos da Silva, Marcelo Urbano Ferreira, Márcia Aparecida Sperança, and Maurício Lacerda Nogueira Author affi liations: Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil (A.C. Bernardes Terzian, R.V. de Moraes Bronzoni, M.L. Nogueira); IBILCE, São José do Rio Preto (A.C. Bernardes Terzian); Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes Claros, Brazil (B.P. Drumond); Instituto de Ciências Biológicas/Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (M. Da SilvaNunes, N. Santos da Silva, M.U. Ferreira); and Faculdade de Medicina de Marília, São Paulo (M.A. Sperança)
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009