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Letter to the Editors

Transmissible colistin resistance encoded by mcr-1 detected in clinical Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Singapore

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Pages 1-12 | Received 04 Apr 2016, Accepted 30 May 2016, Published online: 25 Jan 2019

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