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Infecting Mice with Malassezia spp. to Study the Fungus-Host Interaction
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Images in clinical medicine. Peripheral smear with Malassezia furfur
Parul Bhargava1, Lorinda P Longhi
1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. pbhargav@bidmc.harvard.edu
The New England Journal of Medicine
|June 15, 2007
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