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[The interrelation of microbial ecosystems and human immunity]

E A Fedorovskaia1, L N Nemirovskaia

  • 1Kyiv Scientific-Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine.

Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal (Kiev, Ukraine : 1993)
|January 22, 2000
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