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Adventitious sporulation in Fusarium keratitis

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  1. Institute of Ophthalmology, Joseph Eye Hospital, 620001, Tiruchirapalli, Tamilnadu, India

    Philip A. Thomas, C. A. Nelson Jesudasan & J. Kaliamurthy

  2. Dept. of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, Tamilnadu, India

    P. Geraldine

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This work was presented in part at the annual meeting of the British Society for Medical Mycology at Dublin, Ireland, March 26 to 28, 2006.

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Thomas, P.A., Jesudasan, C.A.N., Geraldine, P. et al. Adventitious sporulation in Fusarium keratitis. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 249, 1429–1431 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-011-1692-y

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