Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power.

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Published in Curr Opin Microbiol on October 24, 2007

Authors

Herminia de Lencastre1, Duarte Oliveira, Alexander Tomasz

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1: Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.

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