Resistance to antifungal drugs

Essentials of Clinical Mycology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 135-151

  Sanglard, Dominique ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6640-7_9     Document Type: Chapter

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