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Case Report

Facial Paralysis and Meningitis Caused by Rickettsia typhi infection

Tatiana Vander Department of Neurulogy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka Medical Center, 84105, Beer-ShevaCorrespondencee-mail: [email protected]
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Mordechay Medvedovsky Department of Neurulogy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka Medical Center, 84105, Beer-Sheva
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Svetlana Valdman Department of Neurulogy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka Medical Center, 84105, Beer-Sheva
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Yuval Herishanu Department of Neurulogy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka Medical Center, 84105, Beer-Sheva
Pages 887-888 | Received 04 Jul 2003, Accepted 29 Jul 2003, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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