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The pathogenesis of experimental pulmonary aspergillosis. An ultrastructural study of alveolar macrophages after phagocytosis of a flavus spores in vivo.

L P Merkow, S M Epstein, H Sidransky, E Verney, M Pardo
PMCID: PMC2047399  PMID: 5538719

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