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Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 841834, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/841834
Case Report

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Javzandulam Natsag, Zaw Min, Yasir Hamad, Bassel Alkhalil, Atiq Rahman, and Richard Williams

Department of Internal Medicine, MedStar Harbor Hospital, 3001 South Hanover Street, Baltimore, MD 21225, USA

Received 29 March 2012; Accepted 8 July 2012

Academic Editors: L. M. Bush, V. Misra, S. Talhari, and W. I. van der Meijden

Copyright © 2012 Javzandulam Natsag et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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