A fatal rhino-cerebral zygomycosis in a young woman with latent diabetes mellitus and cerebral blood vessel agenesis
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Mycology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1369-3786,1460-2709
DOI: 10.3109/13693780903148361