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Brief Report

A comparison of histomorphologic diagnosis with culture- and immunohistochemistry-based diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis

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Pages 279-283 | Received 23 Oct 2019, Accepted 10 Jan 2020, Published online: 23 Jan 2020

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