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1 Department of Internal Medicine - Antibiotic Stewardship Program, Hospital Universitario "12 de Octubre", Instituto de Investigación Hospital "12 de Octubre" (imas12), "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" School of Medicine, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
2 Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario "12 de Octubre", Instituto de Investigación Hospital "12 de Octubre" (imas12), "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" School of Medicine, Madrid, Spain.
3 Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitario "12 de Octubre", Instituto de Investigación Hospital "12 de Octubre" (imas12), "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" School of Medicine, Madrid, Spain.