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Tetsuya Yamamoto1, Tsuneaki Kenzaka2,3, Shimpei Mizuki1

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo Prefectural Kaibara Hospital, Tamba, Japan.

BMC Infectious Diseases
|October 1, 2016
PubMed
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Corynebacterium striatumPsoriasis vulgarisTubo-ovarian abscessesUpper reproductive tract infection

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