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Research Article

Epidemiology of visceral mycoses in autopsy cases in Japan: the data from 1989 to 2009 in the Annual of Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan

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Pages 522-526 | Received 28 Jul 2012, Accepted 30 Nov 2012, Published online: 17 Jan 2013

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