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Original Article

Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Anaerobic Bacteria by the Standardized Disc Diffusion Method with Special Reference to Bacteroides fragilis

Kathrine Dornbusch Department of Bacteriology, National Bacteriological Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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Carl-Erik Nord Department of Bacteriology, National Bacteriological Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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Barbro Olsson Department of Bacteriology, National Bacteriological Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
Pages 59-66 | Published online: 02 Jan 2015

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