A Fatal Case of Disseminated Mucormycosis Mimicking a Malignancy
Alexandre Malek1, Cesar A Arias2,3,4, Luis Ostrosky2
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA. alexandre.e.malek@uth.tmc.edu.
Mycopathologia
|October 14, 2019
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