Acremonium sclerotigenum-Acremonium egyptiacum: a multi-resistant fungal pathogen complicating the course of aplastic anaemia
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1198-743X
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12319