Awareness of predictors of mortality may help improve outcome in chronic pulmonary aspergillosis.
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Affiliations: Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, German Center for Infection Research, Clinical Tuberculosis Center, Borstel, Germany. Department I of Internal Medicine, Clinical Trials Centre Cologne, Centre for Integrated Oncology Köln Bonn, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, German Centre for Infection Research, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The European respiratory journal
دوره 49 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017