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BE Murray - New England Journal of Medicine, 2000 - content.nejm.org Enterococci are best known as antibiotic-resistant opportunistic pathogens that
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R Weinstein - Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1998 - cdc.gov [Emerging Infectious Diseases] [Volume 4 No. 3 / July - September 1998] Special
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MJM Bonten, S Slaughter, AW Ambergen, MK … - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1998 - archinte.highwire.org Methods Rectal colonization was studied daily for 19 weeks in 181 consecutive
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MJM Bonten, MK Hayden, C Nathan, J van … - The Lancet, 1996 - Elsevier There were 97 admissions of 92 patients, of whom 38 required mechanical
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DJ Austin, MJM Bonten - Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1998 - SciELO Brasil Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have recently emerged as a nosocomial
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