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An Unusual Cause of Central Nervous System Infection During Acute Myeloid Leukemia Induction Chemotherapy: Acanthamoeba Brain Abscess

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  1. Ram V. Nampoothiri, Pankaj Malhotra, Ankur Jain, Nitya Batra, Kirti Gupta, Fen Saj, Sumeeta Khurana, Harsha Mahalingam, Anupam Lal, Kanchan Mukherjee, Bishan Radotra and Subhash Varma have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Ram V. Nampoothiri, Pankaj Malhotra, Ankur Jain, Fen Saj & Subhash Varma

  2. Department of Microbiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Nitya Batra & Sumeeta Khurana

  3. Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Kirti Gupta & Bishan Radotra

  4. Department of Radiology and Imaging, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Harsha Mahalingam & Anupam Lal

  5. Department of Neurosurgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Kanchan Mukherjee

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Nampoothiri, R.V., Malhotra, P., Jain, A. et al. An Unusual Cause of Central Nervous System Infection During Acute Myeloid Leukemia Induction Chemotherapy: Acanthamoeba Brain Abscess. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus 34, 153–155 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12288-017-0826-8

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