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spellingShingle Russo, Thomas A., MacDonald, Ulrike, mSphere, The Galleria mellonella Infection Model Does Not Accurately Differentiate between Hypervirulent and Classical Klebsiella pneumoniae, Molecular Biology, Microbiology
title The Galleria mellonella Infection Model Does Not Accurately Differentiate between Hypervirulent and Classical Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_full The Galleria mellonella Infection Model Does Not Accurately Differentiate between Hypervirulent and Classical Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_fullStr The Galleria mellonella Infection Model Does Not Accurately Differentiate between Hypervirulent and Classical Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_full_unstemmed The Galleria mellonella Infection Model Does Not Accurately Differentiate between Hypervirulent and Classical Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_short The Galleria mellonella Infection Model Does Not Accurately Differentiate between Hypervirulent and Classical Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_sort the galleria mellonella infection model does not accurately differentiate between hypervirulent and classical klebsiella pneumoniae
title_unstemmed The Galleria mellonella Infection Model Does Not Accurately Differentiate between Hypervirulent and Classical Klebsiella pneumoniae
topic Molecular Biology, Microbiology
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00850-19