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Case Reports

Mycobacterium abscessus: a rare cause of vascular graft infection

Imran Umer From the Internal Medicine Department and Infectious Diseases, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Odessa, TX
,
Satish Mocherla From the Internal Medicine Department and Infectious Diseases, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Odessa, TX
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Joseph HorvathInfectious Disease Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
,
Suthep Arora From the Internal Medicine Department and Infectious Diseases, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Odessa, TX
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Yasir Ahmed From the Internal Medicine Department and Infectious Diseases, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Odessa, TXCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 813-816 | Received 02 Apr 2014, Accepted 24 Jun 2014, Published online: 19 Aug 2014

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