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Case Reports
. 2019 Mar 4;6(3):ofz033.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz033. eCollection 2019 Mar.

Two Cases of Fatal Hyperammonemia Syndrome due to Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum in Immunocompromised Patients Outside Lung Transplant Recipients

Cima Nowbakht  1 , Angelina R Edwards  2 , David F Rodriguez-Buritica  3 , Andrea M Luce  4 , Pratik B Doshi  5 , Aleksandra De Golovine  2 , John S Bynon  6 , Masayuki Nigo  1
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Case Reports

Two Cases of Fatal Hyperammonemia Syndrome due to Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum in Immunocompromised Patients Outside Lung Transplant Recipients

Cima Nowbakht et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Mycoplasma hominis; Ureaplasma urealyticum; hyperammonemia; immunocompromised.

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