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Successful treatment of meningoencephalitis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with intravenous linezolid in an allogeneic cord blood stem cell transplant recipient

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Pages 990-992 | Received 18 Jun 2008, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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