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SARS: finding a deadly needle in the haystack

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Jim Thompson*
Affiliation:
Emergency Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown, PEI; Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

Abstract

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Type
Commentary • Commentaire
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2003

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