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CASE REPORT

First detection of a VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamase in a carbapenem-resistant Citrobacter freundii clinical isolate in an acute hospital in Germany

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Pages 264-266 | Received 13 Jun 2006, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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