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Bories, P., Zink, E., Mattern, J. et al. Febrile pancytopenia as uncommon presentation of disseminated toxoplasmosis after BMT. Bone Marrow Transplant 47, 301–303 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2011.62
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