Fatal myositis due to the microsporidian Brachiola algerae, a mosquito pathogen.

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Published in N Engl J Med on July 01, 2004

Authors

Christina M Coyle1, Louis M Weiss, Luther V Rhodes, Ann Cali, Peter M Takvorian, Daniel F Brown, Govinda S Visvesvara, Lihua Xiao, Jaan Naktin, Eric Young, Marcelo Gareca, Georgia Colasante, Murray Wittner

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. coyle@aecom.yu.edu

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