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Ambrosioni, J., van Delden, C., Krause, K. et al. Invasive microsporidiosis in allogeneic haematopoietic SCT recipients. Bone Marrow Transplant 45, 1249–1251 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2009.315
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