Intravenous fosfomycin in patients with liver disease for extensively drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria.

J Infect

Infectious Diseases Unit, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki Greece; 3rd Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty, Aristotle University School of Health Sciences, Hippokration Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. Electronic address:

Published: November 2018

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