Enterococcus faecalis in Oral Infections
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Copyright: © 2014 Pinheiro ET, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Enterococcus faecalis in Oral Infections Pinheiro ET1*, and Mayer MPA2 1Discipline of Endodontics, Department of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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