A Cloudy Crystal Ball: Critically Assessing and Rethinking the Antibiogram.

Clin Infect Dis

Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.

Published: November 2023


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