A Case of Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Caused by Mycobacterium avium
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12 * Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care 13 Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan 14 University School of Medicine, Irwon-ro 81, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-710, Korea. 15 Phone: 822-341-3429. Fax: 822-3410-3849. E-mail: [email protected] 16 Copyright © 2013, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. J. Clin. Micr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1884-569X,0387-5911
DOI: 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.72.410