Candida infective endocarditis: report of 15 cases from a prospective multicenter study.

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Published in Medicine (Baltimore) on May 01, 2009

Authors

Marco Falcone1, Nicoletta Barzaghi, Giampiero Carosi, Paolo Grossi, Lorenzo Minoli, Veronica Ravasio, Marco Rizzi, Fredy Suter, Riccardo Utili, Claudio Viscoli, Mario Venditti, Italian Study on Endocarditis

Author Affiliations

1: Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Policlinico Umberto I, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

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