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Carlos Ramiro Silva-Ramos1, J Manuel Matiz-González2, Marcelo B Labruna3

  • 1Grupo de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, DC, Colombia; Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States.

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