Zoonotic Epidemic of Sporotrichosis: Cat to Human Transmission

Overview

Journal PLoS Pathog

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2017 Jan 20

PMID 28103311

Citations 122

Authors

Isabella Dib Ferreira Gremiao

Luisa Helena Monteiro Miranda

Erica Guerino Reis

Anderson Messias Rodrigues

Sandro Antonio Pereira

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