Comparison of the Staph-Ident system with a conventional method for species identification of urine and blood isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on March 01, 1983

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K E Aldridge, C W Stratton, L S Patterson, M E Evans, R L Hodges

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