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The role of chemotherapy in polymorphonuclear phagocytosis in pneumonia

G Piatti1, T Gazzola, L Allegra

  • 1Institute of Respiratory Tract Diseases, Milan, Italy.

Journal of Chemotherapy (Florence, Italy)
|July 21, 1998
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