Lagenidium sp . ocular infection mimicking ocular pythiosis 1
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Usanee Reinprayoon*, Nitipong Permpalung*, Ngamjit Kasetsuwan, Rongpong Plongla, 2 Leonel Mendoza, Ariya Chindamporn 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 4 Thailand, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand, 5 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 6 Thailand, Department of Medicine, Bassett Medical Center and Columbia University College of 7 Physicians and Surgeons, Cooperstown, New York, USA, Division of infectious Diseases, 8 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 9 Thailand,Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics, Michigan 10 State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. 11 *The authors shared equality in the publication. 12
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Lagenidium sp. ocular infection mimicking ocular pythiosis.
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