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Case report| Volume 18, ISSUE 2, P175-177, March 1989

Mycoplasma hominis as a respiratory pathogen in X-linked hypogammaglobulinaemia

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      We report a case of lower respiratory tract infection with Mycoplasma hominis in a patient with X-linked hypogammaglobulinaemia.
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