Is the Free-Living Ameba Hartmannella Causing Keratitis?
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Ameba-associated Keratitis, France
Samiran Saha,1 Ramaprasad Goswami, Netai Pramanik, Subhasis K. Guha, Bibhuti Saha, Mehebubar Rahman, Sudeshna Mallick, Dolanchampa Modak, Fernando O. Silva, Ivete L. Mendonca, Dorcas L. Costa, Carlos H. N. Costa, and Nahid Ali Author affi liations: Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India (S. Saha, N. Ali); School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata (R. Goswami, N. Pramanik, S.K. Guha, B....
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/27.5.1337b