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Pathophysiological Aspects of Aspergillus sp.

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Aspergillosis was firstly identified as fungal infection developed in the lungs of a jackdaw and animals [1] which was firstly focused in human in 1953 [2], and since then, the same infection increases gradually throughout European countries.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, 741235, West Bengal, India

    Tapan Kumar Das

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

    Sajal Chakraborti

  2. Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada

    Naranjan S. Dhalla

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Das, T.K. (2017). Pathophysiological Aspects of Aspergillus sp.. In: Chakraborti, S., Dhalla, N. (eds) Pathophysiological Aspects of Proteases. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6141-7_28

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