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Dual infectious brainstem encephalitis with Aspergillus flavus and Haemophilus influenza in an immunocompetent patient

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  1. Department of Neurology, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK

    Athanasios Papathanasiou & Rasha Abdel-Fahim

  2. Division of Clinical Neurology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK

    Nikos Evangelou

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Papathanasiou, A., Abdel-Fahim, R. & Evangelou, N. Dual infectious brainstem encephalitis with Aspergillus flavus and Haemophilus influenza in an immunocompetent patient. Neurol Sci 39, 1795–1796 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-018-3469-0

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