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WHAT DOES SPP. MEAN when individual species are listed as well?

April 26, 2017individual mean species spp

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WHAT DOES SPP. MEAN when individual species are listed as well?

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spp. always means ‘All isolates of the genus listed’. So, for example, in Bacteraemia 2005, you can select Klebsiella oxytoca (61 isolates), or Klebsiella pneumoniae (174 isolates), or Klebsiella spp (243 isolates, of which 61 are oxytoca, 174 pneumoniae, and 8 others).