Paracoccidioidomycosis

Essentials of Clinical Mycology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 367-385

  Restrepo, Angela ^a   Gonzalez, Angel ^a   Agudelo, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b Universidad Pontificia   (Colombia)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6640-7_21     Document Type: Chapter

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