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Can repurposing of existing drugs provide more effective therapies for invasive fungal infections?

Aspasia KatragkouTransplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Emmanuel RoilidesInfectious Disease Unit, 3rd Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University School of Health Science, Hippokration Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Thomas J. WalshTransplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA;Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and ImmunologyWeill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1179-1182 | Received 18 Jan 2016, Accepted 03 May 2016, Published online: 25 May 2016

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