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Corrigendum to "Pneumocystis pneumonia in COVID-19 patients: A comprehensive review" [Heliyon 9(2) (February 2023)
Elahe Sasani1, Fares Bahrami2,3, Mohammadreza Salehi4,5
1Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Hormozgan Health Institute, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
Heliyon
|May 30, 2023
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13618.].
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