Treatment of difficult Gram-positive infections

R. Cosentini, P. Tarsia, M. Cazzola, F. Blasi

Source: Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 28: 113–130
Journal Issue: Antibiotics and the Lung
Disease area: Respiratory infections

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