Leishmania Infection of a Knee Megaprosthesis

Papanastasiou, John; Mavrogenis, Andreas F.; Flevas, Dimitris; Megaloikonomos, Panayiotis D.; Kolimpianakis, Emmanouil; Iakovidou, Ioanna; Papagelopoulos, Panayiotis J.; Demertzis, Nikolaos

doi:https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.16353

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https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.16353

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https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.16353

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 1, issue 1

Brief report

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01 Aug 2016

Brief report |

| 01 Aug 2016

Leishmania Infection of a Knee Megaprosthesis

John Papanastasiou, Andreas F. Mavrogenis, Dimitris Flevas, Panayiotis D. Megaloikonomos, Emmanouil Kolimpianakis, Ioanna Iakovidou, Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos, and Nikolaos Demertzis

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