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So, if I travel to “Venezuela”, can I get coccidioidomycosis?

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  1. Research Group and Incubator Public Health and Infection, Faculty of Health Sciences, UniversidadTecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, 660001, Risaralda, Colombia

    A. J. Rodriguez-Morales, C. E. Jiménez-Canizales & A. Mondragón-Cardona

  2. Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru

    A. Taype-Rondán

  3. Klinik für Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Sankt Vinzenz Hospital, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany

    J. A. Vargas-Gandica

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Rodriguez-Morales, A.J., Jiménez-Canizales, C.E., Mondragón-Cardona, A. et al. So, if I travel to “Venezuela”, can I get coccidioidomycosis?. Infection 42, 1067–1068 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-014-0687-0

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