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. 1993 Nov;37(11):2255–2260. doi: 10.1128/aac.37.11.2255

Antibiotic-supersusceptible mutants of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium.

M Vaara 1
PMCID: PMC192375  PMID: 8285603

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