Melioidosis—an unusual cause of septic arthritis
✍ Scribed by Joe Thomas; Nambiar Veettil Jayachandran; Pradeep Kumar Shenoy Chandrasekhara; V. Lakshmi; Gumdal Narsimulu
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0770-3198
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