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Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology-Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec;
² Department of Medicine, Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops, British Columbia; ; Departments of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.

Louis Valiquette et al. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2015 Jul-Aug.

. 2015 Jul-Aug;26(4):174-7.

doi: 10.1155/2015/370240.

¹ Department of Microbiology-Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec;
² Department of Medicine, Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops, British Columbia; ; Departments of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.

No abstract available

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