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. 2017 Oct 15;65(8):1429-1430.
doi: 10.1093/cid/cix554.

Reply to Marx et al

Allan R Tunkel  1 , Rodrigo Hasbun  2 , Adarsh Bhimraj  3 , Karin Byers  4 , Sheldon L Kaplan  5 , W Michael Scheld  6 , Diederik van de Beek  7 , Thomas P Bleck  8 , Joseph R Zunt  9
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Allan R Tunkel et al. Clin Infect Dis. .
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