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Acta Clinica Belgica
International Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine
Volume 71, 2016 - Issue 3
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Letter to the Editor

Controversies in the leading causative pathogen of infective endocarditis: Data from a single tertiary hospital in Belgium

J.C. YombiDepartment of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, BelgiumCorrespondence[email protected]
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S. YumaFaculté de Médecine, ESP, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Operational Methods Unit in Public Health, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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H. Rodriguez-VillalobosDepartment of Microbiology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Pages 194-196 | Published online: 07 Feb 2016

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