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Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis1, Russell E Lewis, Oliver Lortholary, Oliver Lotholary, Brad Spellberg, Georgios Petrikkos, Emmanuel Roilides, Emmanuel Roillides, Ashraf Ibrahim, Thomas J Walsh.
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Mucormycosis has emerged as an important opportunistic infection, especially in severely immunosuppressed hosts. The evolving epidemiology, immunopathogenesis, molecular virulence studies, early diagnosis, and pitfalls in designing clinical studies of mucormycosis are discussed in this article.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22247450 PMCID: PMC3258101 DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir886
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079