gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis, a rare and under-diagnosed fungal infection in immunocompetent hosts: a review article
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gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis (gib) is an unusual, rare, but emerging fungal infection in the stomach, small intestine, colon, and liver. it has been rarely reported in the english literature and most of the reported cases have been from us, saudi arabia, kuwait, and iran. in the last five years, 17 cases have been reported from one or two provinces in iran, and it seems that it has been undiagnosed or probably unnoticed in other parts of the country. in this review, we explored the english literature from 1964 through 2013 via pubmed, google, and google scholar using the following search
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iranian journal of medical sciencesجلد ۴۰، شماره ۲، صفحات ۹۰-۰
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