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A Case of Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. Hominis in a Patient with HLAB27 Aortitis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Tanya Suvendrini Lena  and
Christine De Meulemeester
Tanya Suvendrini Lena*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto
Christine De Meulemeester
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
*
University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 385 - 387
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