Chorioretinitis following liver transplantation: detection of Toxoplasma gondii in aqueous humor.

Clin Infect Dis

Département d'Anesthésie Réanimation, Pavillon P, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France.

Published: January 1996

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