Chronic symptomatic and microfilaremic loiasis in a returned traveller.

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Department of Medicine (Thompson, Cy, Boggild), University of Toronto; Public Health Ontario Laboratories (Boggild), Public Health Ontario; Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases (Boggild), University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ont.

Published: April 2015


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