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Does cytomegalovirus cause glomerular injury in renal allograft recipients?

P E Birk1, B M Chavers

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN
|November 14, 1997
PubMed

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