Breath-Based Diagnosis of Invasive Mucormycosis (IM)
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1776. Breath-Based Diagnosis of Invasive Mucormycosis (IM) Seena Koshy, PhD; Nour Ismail, MD; Carmen Leon Astudillo, MD; Christina Mallarino Haeger, MD; Obadah Aloum, MBBS; Mahesh Thalavitiya Acharige, PhD; Dimitrios Farmakiotis, MD; Lindsey R. Baden, MD; Francisco M. Marty, MD, FIDSA; Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, MD, ScD, PhD (Hon), FACP, FIDSA, FECMM, FAAM; Laxura Fredenburgh, MD and Sophia Koo, MD, FIDSA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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