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Whole Body Vibration Methods with Survivors of Polio
Published on: October 17, 2018
[Surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in Italy, 1997-2001]
L Fiore1, G Buttinelli, S Fiore
1Reparto Infezioni da Enterovirus e Virus Enteritogeni, Laboratorio di Virologia, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma. l.fiore@iss.it
Annali Di Igiene : Medicina Preventiva E Di Comunita
|October 23, 2002
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