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Kaliaperumal, S., Srinivasan, R., Gupta, A. et al. Postoperative endophthalmitis due to an unusual pathogen: Alcaligenes faecalis. Eye 20, 968–969 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.eye.6702080
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