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Yeast Infection in Immunocompetent Patients Fomenting Ferment to Foil the Fermenter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
*
The Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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