Resistance to six aminoglycosidic aminocyclitol antibiotics among enterococci: prevalence, evolution, and relationship to synergism with penicillin.

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Published in Antimicrob Agents Chemother on September 01, 1977

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S A Calderwood, C Wennersten, R C Moellering, L J Kunz, D J Krogstad

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