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Original Articles

The antibiotic susceptibility pattern of gas gangrene-forming Clostridium spp. clinical isolates from South-Eastern Hungary

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Pages 196-201 | Received 15 Jul 2019, Accepted 19 Nov 2019, Published online: 28 Nov 2019

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