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Life-threatening COVID-19 and aspergillosis co-infection in a heart transplant recipient: A cardiologist’s nightmare
Affiliations- Department of Cardiology and Internal Diseases, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdynia, Poland
- Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
- Department of Radiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
- Department of Occupational, Metabolic and Internal Diseases, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdynia, Poland
- Department of Tropical and Parasitic Diseases, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdynia, Poland
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Life-threatening COVID-19 and aspergillosis co-infection in a heart transplant recipient: A cardiologist’s nightmare
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351-354
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2022-01-11
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Cardiol J 2022;29(2):351-354.
Authors
Renata Wachnicka-Truty
Bartosz Curyłło
Dagmara Wojtowicz
Dorota Kulawiak-Gałąska
Marcin Renke
Katarzyna Sikorska
Marcin Gruchała
Marek Koziński
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