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[Human intestinal spirochetosis: clinical series and literature review]

Carlo Lozano1, Leonardo Arellano, Pamela Yaquich

  • 1Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital del Salvador, Santiago, Chile.

Revista Chilena De Infectologia : Organo Oficial De La Sociedad Chilena De Infectologia
|October 26, 2012
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