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Metabolically deficient methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as cause of chronic post-thoracotomy sternal wound infection

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    A. Roggenkamp, A. Haas, W. Eder & H. Hoffmann

  2. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Medical Centre Groβhadern, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    E. Kreuzer

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Roggenkamp, A., Haas, A., Eder, W. et al. Metabolically deficient methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as cause of chronic post-thoracotomy sternal wound infection. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 23, 419–421 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-004-1124-6

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