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[Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma infections in chronic genital inflammatory processes, abortion and infertility]

O I Troshina, N A Gamova, Iu V Vul'fovich

    Vestnik Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk SSSR
    |January 1, 1991
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