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THE ABSENCE FROM THE URINE OF PERNICIOUS ANEMIA PATIENTS OF A MOSQUITO GROWTH FACTOR PRESENT IN NORMAL URINE

W Trager1, D K Miller, C P Rhoads

  • 1Department of Animal and Plant Pathology, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, New Jersey, and the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York.

The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
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