Painless swelling of the forefoot and recurrent subcutaneous abscesses of the lower leg—Two distinct presentations illustrating the spectrum of eumycetoma in a nonendemic country
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1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Triemli Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland, 2 Division of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 3 Division of Orthopedics, University Children’s Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 4 Clinic of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 5 Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 6 Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 7 Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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