Retrospective Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance in Streptococcus spp. from HIV Patients (2012–2017) from Southern India

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Authors
Chinnambedu Ravichandran Swathirajan 1
Marimuthu Ragavan Rameshkumar 1
Sunil Suhas Solomon 2
Ramachandran Vignesh 3
Pachamuthu Balakrishnan 1
1 Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Y. R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE), Voluntary Health Services Hospital Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Preclinical Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine Perak, Ipoh, Malaysia; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
3 Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Y. R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE), Voluntary Health Services Hospital Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; Preclinical Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine Perak, Ipoh, Malaysia
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Advanced Biomedical Research
Volume 2019, January
January 2019
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