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Vol. 15. Issue 5.
Pages 505-506 (September - October 2011)
Vol. 15. Issue 5.
Pages 505-506 (September - October 2011)
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Nosocomial outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa carrying blaVIM-2 in burn wards, China
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Ruowen Zhang1, Li Mingcheng2, Xueyan Dong3, Fan Li1,
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lifan@jilin.edu.cn
Correspondence to: Jilin University Norman Bethune College of Medicine Department of Pathogenobiology 126 Xinmin Street, Changchun Jilin, 130021, China.
Correspondence to: Jilin University Norman Bethune College of Medicine Department of Pathogenobiology 126 Xinmin Street, Changchun Jilin, 130021, China.
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