Fungal Endocarditis: Patients at Risk and Their Treatment

Overview

Journal Postgrad Med J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1979 Sep 1

PMID 392478

Citations 9

Authors

M S Seelig

P J Kozinin

P Goldberg

A R Berger

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