Subacute progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in immunocompetent patient
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Copyright © 2016 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul; Departments of Internal Medicine and Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea Subacute progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in immunocompetent patient Seong Jin Choi, Han-Sol Choi, June Young Chun, Chung-Jong Kim, Myung Jin Lee, Moonsuk Kim, and Ghee Young Choe
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