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A Point Mutation Associated with Bacterial Macrolide Resistance is Present in Both 23S RRNA Genes of an Erythromycin-resistant Treponema Pallidum Clinical Isolate

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Specialty Pharmacology
Date 2001 Feb 7
PMID 10755994
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