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Fernando Althabe1, José M Belizán, Eduardo Bergel

  • 1Latin American Center for Perinatology, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, Casilla de Correos 627, Montevideo 11000, Uruguay. althabef@clap.ops-oms.org

BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)
|April 20, 2002
PubMed
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