A case of afebrile pneumonia caused by non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
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Yasuo Honma, Yuko Yoshii, Yumiko Watanabe, Nobuki Aoki, Takako Komiya, Masaaki Iwaki, Hiroyuki Arai, Yoshichika Arakawa, Motohide Takahashi*, and Hirokazu Kimura Shinrakuen Hospital, Niigata 950-2087; Department of Bacteriology II and Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 208-0011; and Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Japanese journal of infectious diseases
دوره 62 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009