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Case Reports
. 2017 Oct;55(10):3149-3150.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02488-15.

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Puja H Nambiar  1 , Mindy Tokarczyk  2 , Joseph A DeSimone Jr  3
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Puja H Nambiar et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Oct.
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Keywords: Scedosporium prolificans; antifungal therapy; febrile neutropenia; fungal infections; fungemia; lymphoma.

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