The Regional Antibiogram Is an Important Public Health Tool to Improve Empiric Antibiotic Selection, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia As A Case Example

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  • Romney Humphries
  • Job Mendez
  • Loren G Miller
  • Aaron Miner
  • Priyanka Fernandes
  • Stefan Richter
  • Ryan Franco
  • Joanna Felix-Mendez
  • Shalini Agrawal
  • Jacob Sinkowitz
  • Deren Sinkowitz
  • Christina Hershey
  • Nanruoyi Zhou
  • Alyssa Eliopulos
  • Sandeep Bhaurla
  • Aldon Mendez
  • Patricia Marquez
  • Shiva Niakan
  • Dawn Terashita
  • Benjamin Schwartz
  • James A McKinnell
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دوره 4  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2017