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US Army Experience with Acinetobacter in Operation Iraqi Freedom

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  1. Commander, 9th Area Medical Laboratory (Dragon Ninth) E5158 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Grounds-EA, MD 21010-5403

    Clinton Murray, Paul T. Scott, Kim A. Moran & David W. Craft

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  1. Paris, France

    Eugénie Bergogne-Bérézin (Editor-in-Chief of Antibiotiques) (Editor-in-Chief of Antibiotiques)

  2. University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA

    Herman Friedman

  3. University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Mauro Bendinelli

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Murray, C., Scott, P.T., Moran, K.A., Craft, D.W. (2008). US Army Experience with Acinetobacter in Operation Iraqi Freedom. In: Bergogne-Bérézin, E., Friedman, H., Bendinelli, M. (eds) Acinetobacter Biology and Pathogenesis. Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77944-7_12

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