COPD-4229-Management of invasive aspergillosis in patients
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Florence Ader1 Anne-Lise Bienvenu2 Blandine rammaert3 Saad Nseir4 1Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales; 2Service de Parasitologie et Mycologie Médicale, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital de La Croixrousse, Lyon, France; 3Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker enfants Malades, Centre d’infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, Paris, France; 4Service de réanimation Médicale, Hôpital A. Calmette, Centre Hospitalier régional Universitaire, Lille, France
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