Antifungal therapy and length of hospitalization in transplant patients with invasive aspergillosis.

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Published in Med Mycol on June 11, 2012

Authors

John W Baddley1, David R Andes, Kieren A Marr, Carol A Kauffman, Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis, James I Ito, Mindy G Schuster, Kyle D Brizendine, Thomas F Patterson, G Marshall Lyon, Michael Boeckh, Robert A Oster, Tom Chiller, Peter G Pappas

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0006, USA. jbaddley@uab.edu

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