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Juurlink, D.N., Borczyk, A. & Simor, A.E. Native valve endocarditis due toCorynebacterium striatum . Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 15, 963–965 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01690520
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