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Pedro Costa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque1, Idê Gomes Dantas Gurgel1, Aline do Monte Gurgel1

  • 1Department of Public Health, Research Center Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, PE, Brazil.

Revista Brasileira De Epidemiologia = Brazilian Journal of Epidemiology
|August 7, 2015
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