Citation: Nikolaos Giormezis, Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Fevronia Kolonitsiou, Eleanna Drougka, Antigoni Foka, Styliani Sarrou, Evangelos D. Anastassiou, Efthimia Petinaki, Iris Spiliopoulou. Biofilm synthesis and its relationship with genetic characteristics in clinical methicillin-resistant staphylococci[J]. AIMS Bioengineering, 2015, 2(4): 375-386. doi: 10.3934/bioeng.2015.4.375
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