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Lina Akesson1, Tyson Hawkins, Richard Jensen

  • 1Diabetes and Celiac Disease Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.

Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics
|August 21, 2007
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