Mold infections of the central nervous system.

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Published in N Engl J Med on July 10, 2014

Authors

Matthew McCarthy1, Axel Rosengart, Audrey N Schuetz, Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis, Thomas J Walsh

Author Affiliations

1: From the Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Microbiology and Immunology (M.M., T.J.W.), and the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery (A.R.) and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (A.N.S.), Weill Cornell Medical Center of Cornell University, New York; and the Infectious Diseases Department and Division of Internal Medicine, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (D.P.K.).

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