Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics

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Ureaplasma urealyticum or Ureaplasma parvum: what's the difference?

  • Sung, Tae-Jung (Department of Pediatrics, Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital)
  • Received : 2013.08.27
  • Accepted : 2013.10.09
  • Published : 2013.11.15
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