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Los compuestos antiscrapie de la porfirina y la ftalatocianina son compuestos antiscrapie

S A Priola1, A Raines, W S Caughey

  • 1Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA. spriola@nih.gov

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 26, 2000
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