Severe Listeria meningoencephalitis in an infliximab-treated patient with Crohn's disease
✍ Scribed by Ferenc Izbéki; Ferenc Nagy; Zoltán Szepes; Ildikó Kiss; János Lonovics; Tamás Molnár
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 123 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1078-0998
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